A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Charles Ruggles | ... | Peter Yates (as Charlie Ruggles) | |
| Lionel Atwill | ... | Eric Gorman | |
| Gail Patrick | ... | Jerry Evans | |
| Randolph Scott | ... | Dr. Jack Woodford | |
| John Lodge | ... | Roger Hewitt | |
| Kathleen Burke | ... | Evelyn Gorman | |
| Harry Beresford | ... | Professor G.A. Evans | |
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Eric Gorman returns with his wife Evelyn from a trip to the Orient collecting zoo animals, having killed a member of his expedition who happened one day to kiss Mrs. Gorman. On board ship Evelyn meets Roger Hewitt, who falls in love with her. After delivering his animals to the zoo, Gorman plots a way to dispose of Hewitt using one of his latest specimens, then continues using the zoo's non-human residents to do his beastly work. Written by Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
31 March 1933 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Murder at the Zoo See more »Filming Locations:
Selig Mission Zoo - 3800 Mission Road, Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording) (original)Color:
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1.33 : 1
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Peter Yates: You mean that you really like these, eh?
Eric Gorman: Beasts? I love them. They're honest in their simplicity, their primative emotions... They love, they hate, they kill.
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(uncredited)
Written by Johann Strauss
Played as background music aboard ship
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One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. See more »Goofs
Gorman invites Hewitt to the benefit dinner, which he says will be on Thursday. Moments later, we see a printed invitation, which says "Wednesday". See more »Quotes
Eric Gorman: Mr. Gates, never be afraid of a wild animal. Let it alone, and it'll leave you alone. That's more than we can say of most humans.Peter Yates: You mean that you really like these, eh?
Eric Gorman: Beasts? I love them. They're honest in their simplicity, their primative emotions... They love, they hate, they kill.
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Roses from the South(uncredited)
Written by Johann Strauss
Played as background music aboard ship
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This seldom-seen hidden gem features the sadistic Lionel Atwill at his evil best. As a jealous zoologist, he resorts to drastic measures by using his animals to kill any man who makes a play for his luscious wife (Kathleen Burke, the panther woman from ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, who exudes exotic beauty). There are some pretty "extreme" methods of dealing death for such an early film, utilizing snakes, alligators and one pretty horrific sequence involving "sewing".
The only wrench in the works is the maddeningly unfunny comedian, Charlie Ruggles (who even gets top billing!) who's like a consistent thorn in the side of the movie whenever he pops in every now and then. I'm not one for altering original films under any circumstances, but I may make a unique exception in this case to excise all of this idiot's scenes. Luckily, the movie still emerges as an easy and enjoyable 62 minutes if you ignore Ruggles and savor the main plot of a green-eyed husband making people pay. *** out of ****