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The Gorilla

The Gorilla (1939)

  • 25% of users liked it
    (384 ratings)

When Fox bought the rights to Ralph Spence's warhorse stage mystery-comedy The Gorilla for the Ritz Brothers, they walked out en masse, refusing to work on the picture until their contracts were renegotiated and the script heavily rewritten. The finished product features an escaped circus… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Written By
Rian James, Sid Silvers
Genres
Horror, Mystery & Suspense, Classics, Comedy
In Theaters
May 26, 1939 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television

    Unusual adaptation of a play, with remarkable camera technique.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    The Ritz Brothers are a low-rent version of the Marx Brothers.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Bruce B


    This film was far more then I expected. From the Sons of Kong 10 Movie Collection, Here I thought it would be another Jungle movie filmed before 1940 a copy cat of the so many others in that time frame. I was so wrong, what you have here is a Mystery / Comedy. Its enjoyable to say the… More

  • AJ V


    I know the Ritz brothers are supposed to be funny, but they aren't, if you have to hire a comedy group to be your detectives, you really have no hope in solving the crime.

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