The Gorilla (1931)
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Synopsis of The Gorilla
This second of four film versions of Ralph Spence's stage comedy-melodrama The Gorilla stars legendary Broadway comedian Joe Frisco, he of the eternal cigar and funny stammer. Frisco and former Keystone Kop Harry Gribbon play Garrity and Mulligan, a pair of dumb detectives who are summoned to an old dark house to protect heiress Alice Denby (Lila Lee) and zoologist Cyrus Stevens (Edwin Maxwell) from harm. Several killings have taken place in the vicinity, and the most likely suspect is a huge gorilla, recently escaped from its trainer. But in their own inimitable, bumbling fashion, Frisco and Gribbon prove that the murderer is actually a human being in gorilla guise -- but not before dressing up in monkey suits themselves. Fourth-billed Walter Pidgeon plays his role as if longing for his agent to tell him that his Warner Bros. contract has expired. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of The Gorilla
- Lila Lee - Alice Denby
- Harry Gribbon - Mulligan
- Purnell Pratt - The Stranger
- Roscoe Karns - Simmons
- Joe Frisco - Garrity
- Walter Pidgeon - Arthur Marsden
- Edwin Maxwell - Cyrus Stevens
- Landers Stevens - The Inspector
- Director(s):
- Bryan Foy
- Writer(s):
- Harrison Orkow, Herman Ruby, Ralph Spence
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