Philip Terry is about to be hanged for murder, so mad scientist George Zucco asks him if he can have his brain after he's no longer using it for a project that will benefit humanity. It turns out to be to transplant into a gorilla (played by Charles Gemora), who goes around killing the people who did wrong by him and his sister, prostitute Ellen Drew.
It's a crazy, well-produced Paramount B movie, which also includes comedy cops, actors who specialized in gangsters playing scientists, a faithful dog and noir photography by Victor Milner. With a huge cast of skilled minor players -- Marc Lawrence gets a substantial role -- it looks like a movie that was written seriatim by fourteen or fifteen writers, with enough silly plot points to fill up 150 minutes, let alone a tight, 65 minute under the direction of Stuart Heisler. Credit B movie writer Stuart Anthony, who died 14 months later and who apparently felt a need to cram as many different movies into this one as possible.
It's a crazy, well-produced Paramount B movie, which also includes comedy cops, actors who specialized in gangsters playing scientists, a faithful dog and noir photography by Victor Milner. With a huge cast of skilled minor players -- Marc Lawrence gets a substantial role -- it looks like a movie that was written seriatim by fourteen or fifteen writers, with enough silly plot points to fill up 150 minutes, let alone a tight, 65 minute under the direction of Stuart Heisler. Credit B movie writer Stuart Anthony, who died 14 months later and who apparently felt a need to cram as many different movies into this one as possible.