- The Ape
Infobox Film
name = The Ape
caption = A promotional film poster for "The Ape."
director =William Nigh
producer =William Nigh
writer =Adam Shirk Curt Siodmak Richard Carroll
starring =Boris Karloff Maris Wrixon Gene O'Donnell
music =Edward J. Kay
cinematography =Harry Neumann
editing =Russell F. Schoengarth
distributor =Monogram Pictures Corporation
released = 30 September1940
runtime = 62 min
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:2669
imdb_id = 0032215"The Ape" is a 1940
horror film made forMonogram Pictures , co-written byCurt Siodmak and starringBoris Karloff .Plot outline
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople.
The Ape eventually breaks into Dr. Adrian's lab. The Doctor manages to kill it before any harm can come to himself. However, the spinal fluids he requires to perform his experiments have all been destroyed during the struggle between him and the Ape.
Doctor Adrian then concocts an idea: he will tear off the ape's flesh and use its skin to disguise himself as the escaped circus animal and murder townspeople in order to extract their spinal fluid. Thus the murders will be blamed on the Ape and he, himself, will manage to avoid any suspicion.
However, one of his attacks towards the film's end is unsuccessful; he is fatally knifed and the Ape's "true identity" is revealed.
Cast
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Boris Karloff - Dr. Bernard Adrian
*Maris Wrixon - Miss Frances Clifford
*Gene O'Donnell - Danny Foster
*Dorothy Vaughan - Mother Clifford
*Gertrude Hoffman - Jane, Adrian's Housekeeper (as Gertrude W. Hoffman)
* Henry Hall - Sheriff Jeff Halliday
*Selmer Jackson - Dr. McNultyee also
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Boris Karloff filmography References
External links
*imdb title|id=0032215|title=The Ape
* [http://www.archive.org/details/the_ape Free Download] fromInternet Archive
* [http://onlinevideos.890m.com/?id=44&name=the-ape-1940 "The Ape"] at [http://OnlineVideos.890m.com OnlineVideos.890m.com]
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