Featured Audience Ratings

• AJ V

  
  Just stupid, there's no suspense or mystery about it.

• Byron B

  
  Another scary ape (not gorilla) horror flick. This one does have a bit of Gothic atmosphere because it takes place on a dark and stormy night and perhaps the cinematographer's German roots show themselves. By the end the audience should solve the mystery before the characters,… More
  Another scary ape (not gorilla) horror flick. This one does have a bit of Gothic atmosphere because it takes place on a dark and stormy night and perhaps the cinematographer's German roots show themselves. By the end the audience should solve the mystery before the characters, but throughout the brief single hour the mystery is an adequate one. Mr. Earlton has passed away and his family and servants wait to hear his will. He kept an ape in the house for years, but it is caged in the basement now. This time there is no man in a monkey suit. Mr. Wilkes (Bracey) is the dim-witted lawyer of the Earlton estate. Earlton's brother Robert, who has been paralyzed for about a year, is played well by Sheldon Lewis. Vera Reynolds is Ruth, the late Mr. Earlton's daughter. She brings her doctor fiance to her family's old house. Rex Lease is Dr. Clayton, the practical, polite and inquisitive hero. The doctor has a black chauffeur, who provides some comic relief (mostly of the racial stereotype variety). Willie Best sadly was credited as Sleep 'n Eat. Martha Mattox plays the stern German house keeper Mrs. Krug. And Mischa Auer plays her lanky son Hanns. His performance reminded me of Max Schreck's Nosferatu, but it got to be silly the way all the characters pronounced his name like "hands." So Ruth gets the inheritance, some characters evidently have deep secrets, and there is a limited number of suspects in a household filled with peepholes behind pictures and secret passageways. If it was longer, it might start to get unbearable, but I didn't regret it taking an hour of my time.