Gorilla At Large is a 1954 horror movie set in a circus with a regular size gorilla. Raymond Burr is the guy in charge. He has something going on with Anne Bancroft, the trapeze star. I was never a big fan of Anne bancroft as an actor but she sure looks good in those costumes and fishnet stockings. Cameron Mitchell works as the circus barker. Anne wants have him to dress up as the gorilla to be part of the trapeze act. Before that gets going a guy is murdered, he had been trouble around the show. He knew something about the death of Anne's old partner. Lee J Cobb is the Police Detective that comes to investigate the death.
Things heat on the set with Anne having eyes for Cameron. Never a good thing when Raymond is a jealous guy. Cameron's girlfriend works at the circus and she's ready to pack it in but Cameron sure would like the extra 50 bucks a week from the act. Lee Marvin is a beat cop assigned to watch the gorilla. He gets knocked out when someone lets the gorilla out. Much of the movie is shot at Nu Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California. It's a good looking film that was originally presented in 3-D. It was the second 3-D film at 2oth Century Fox though it was produced by Panoramic Productions. It's another one I hadn't seen before, at least, as far as I remember. I enjoyed it well enough, there's some nice plot points, and would watch it again sometime.
Jules Verne's Mystery On Monster Island is a 1981 US-Spanish production. It's got Terrence Stamp and Peter Cushing in the lead roles. Sadly they aren't in it very much. It's the 1880's and Peter buys an island with a huge pile of gold on it. He doesn't know that but Terrence does. Peter sends his nephew on the ship to the island along with the nephew's professor from college. Weird sea monsters attack in the night, only the nephew and professor get off the ship. They wash up on shore and try to survive. There's some nice footage of big rocks but sadly the monsters were pretty piss poor. It's not anywhere near as entertaining as the previous three movies I watched today. I got to fast forwarding it to get things moving along. The nice thing about all these old movies, besides the entertaining stories and fun monsters, is the 80 odd minute running time. Just the right length for the type of movie they are. Sadly JVMOMI is 105 minutes. I hadn't seen it before and I wouldn't much need to see it again. I'd watch all the other three three movies I saw today again before I'd watch this. The same can be said for the 2004 Monster Island with Carmen Electra.
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