![]() ![]() ![]() So carnival barker Joey (Cameron Mitchell) puts on a gorilla costume and they change it up, with a new ending where the beast really does get the girl. Yet the owner, Cyrus Miller (Burr) thinks the act is growing old. The carnival has come to town and its big selling point is watching the giant gorilla Goliath get cock teased by Laverne, a trapeze artist (Bancroft). ![]() Wait - it’s in 3D? How much do you want to give us, Panoramic Productions? What a cast! Throw in George Barrows as Goliath, the titular gorilla and man, we have a movie. Cobb, Raymond Burr, Lee Marvin and Warren Stevens. A Horror Film That Prominently Features A Gorilla Costume.Ĭameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Posted in Movie reviews, Mill Creek Box Sets, Nightmare Worlds month Tagged 1956, 1940 Leave a comment THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 25: Gorilla At Large (1954)Ģ5. It was just when my grandfather would get home from the mill and I was always so excited to watch these with him, then sleep in his bed while he told me about seeing then in the theater. As a kid, I would stay awake until four in the morning on Sundays, as WTAE in Pittsburgh would show thirty minutes of these old serials. Taking sets and ideas from Buck Rodgers as well as footage from the German movie White Hell of Pitz Palu, this is still a great looking movie even eighty years later. Flash Gordon discovers that Ming the Merciless is behind the plague when he finds one of Ming’s spaceships spreading “Death Dust.” Our hero goes off to save every one of us along with Dale Arden, Dr. ![]() The Purple Death is killing people, leaving behind a purple spot on the victims’ foreheads. There’s also another version released in the 70s called Space Soldiers Conquer the Universe. This is the third of the serials and was also adapted into three syndicated films called Space Soldiers, Space Soldiers’ Trip to Mars and Space Soldiers Conquer the Universe, given that title as there was a Flash Gordon TV series at the time and they didn’t want to take away from it. While most movie serials were made for children, the Flash Gordon series connected with adults and became these actual films. Directed by Ford Beebe - who also made a Buck Rodgers serial - and Ray Taylor - who was the director of The Spider’s Web - is the first part of the serial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe and Perils from the Planet Mongo completes the storyline. ![]()
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