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You would figure that a film with Raymond Burr and Lon Channey Jr. in it called Bride of the Gorilla would have to be pure cheese fun. No so much in this case. Wow, was this a borefest to the extreme!

The basic plot is this, Burr punches his boss in the jungle because he’s in love with the boss’s blonde, buxom wife. He stands there and watches his boss get bit my a deadly snake and die. The mysterious old jungle women makes him pay by poisoning him. This either makes him think he turns into a apeman, or actually makes him turn into an apemen, Lon is the cop how is out to prove he’s the murders, or something like that. It all ends up like these thing usually do.

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It might sound like there is enough her for an entertaining film but do. Most of this film is filled with a bunch of pointless talking and very little to amuse the watcher. Channey narrate a bit at the beginning and at the end, which is a little entertaining and Burr is just depressing all the time. Barbara Payton is ok as the love interest.

This film was written and directed by the same man who wrote the 1941 film The Wolfman, which also had Lon Channey, Jr. and this film comes off as a cheap attempt at recapturing the magic of that film but fails miserably.