The Bride and the Beast (1958)

When Laura and Dan get married, she's more interested in Dan's gorilla. It's revealed through hypnosis that she was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation.

Director:

Adrian Weiss

Writers:

Adrian Weiss (story), Edward D. Wood Jr.

Stars:

Charlotte Austin, Lance Fuller, Johnny Roth

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Charlotte Austin	...	Laura Carson Fuller
Lance Fuller	...	Dan Fuller
Johnny Roth	...	Taro, Houseboy-Guide
William Justine	...	Dr. Carl Reiner
Gil Frye	...	Capt. Cameron
Jeanne Gerson	...	Marka, Cook
Trustin Howard	...	Soldier-Messenger (as Slick Slavin)
Eve Brent	...	Stewardess (as Jean Ann Lewis)
Bhogwan Singh	...	Man in Hut Killed by Tiger

Storyline

When Laura and Dan get married, she's more interested in Dan's gorilla. It's revealed through hypnosis that she was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation.

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Plot Keywords:

gorilla | hunting trip | stuffed animal | nightmare | blowgun | 

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Taglines:

Human prey of giant gorilla on her wedding night!

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Genres:

Horror

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 February 1958 (USA)

Also Known As:

Queen of the Gorillas

Filming Locations:

Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Allied Artists Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

78 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Steve Calvert's friend Bobby Small, who worked primarily as a circus clown, donned the alternate gorilla suit in scenes that required two apes in the same shot.

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Goofs

When Spanky the gorilla bumps into the stone wall, it wobbles.

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Connections

Edited from Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948)

User Reviews

The Bride and the Stock Footage

This awful flick offers little scope for screenwriter Ed Wood's unique, uh, "talents," being mostly made up of boring stock footage. There's hardly even a plot, which may be a mercy considering what Ed Wood's plots tend to be like.

The whole "queen of the gorillas" thing is introduced early in the film, and then just dropped until about seven minutes from the end, as our protagonists head off to Africa to capture some giraffes and rhinos (Howard Hawks so ripped this off for HATARI!) and hunt panthers and tigers.

Yes, tigers. Much of the stock footage they had featured a pair of tigers, so either Adrian Weiss or Ed Wood came up with the notion that a ship carrying a pair of tigers had wrecked on the African coast.

Uh, yeah.