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A wealthy man receives a letter from a killer known as the Gorilla warning him that he will be his next victim. In a panic Walter Stevens hires three detectives to try catch The Gorilla before he reaches him first. In the meantime an actual escaped Gorilla shows up in Walter Stevens mansion just to complicate the investigation.
Oh god this was a hard watch as i feared the comedy was so lame its like the Ritz brothers are trying their best to be both the Marx brothers and The Three Stooges but a very very bad version of both. The maid was one of the worst characters just shrieking her head of from start to finish every scene she is in you almost have to turn down the volume to get through it. The acting in general was terrible with everyone acting really stupid apart from Bela and Stevens character.
Its not even just the fact the comedy doesn't work for me but the film just drags it felt like it wasn't going in any sort of direction just people acting foolish to pad out the film which is obviously not a good thing with the film running at just over an hour. There is very little emphasis on horror at all and more focus on the comedy element of the film which was disappointing they really didn't keep the balance that was needed and to make things worse the end has more twists in the last minute than the Nürburgring.
The problem with Bela's character in this film is something that plagued his whole career and that was using him as the distraction from the actual villain of he film by having him acting all scary using different lighting on his face when ever he is in shot even managing to make him look evil while handing a coat to the lady of the house whats worse is its so obvious what they are doing when its already been done so many times before with Bela. I will commend him for putting in a strong serious performance while everyone around him is acting like clowns.