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Now showing on Stevegoolie Saturday Night...The Gorilla (1939) on classic DVD 📀! #movie #movies #horror #comedy #thegorilla #belalugosi #theritzbrothers #patsykelly #dvd #30s #Stevegoolie #svengoolie #metv

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The Gorilla (1939)

My rating: 5/10

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WHEN RETURNS...THE GORILLA!

From BLUE BEETLE COMICS (vol. 1) #10 (December, 1941) comes the second comic book story featuring the weirdo villain The Gorilla.

That's right: Jack Castle, former henchman to a mad scientist, is trapped with his brain inside the body of a (very anemic) gorilla, and has decided to become a menace to mankind.

"He can't do that to me!" Whattaya mean, Renard? He literally just did!

Oh brother, it seems the Gorilla still has the hots for Elsa Brock (now named Bonn), the gal who shot him in the last story.

And good grief, is that Ken Connors, at your service, in the last panel?

D'OH! First she shot him, now Elsa's set the poor Gorilla on fire! The only thing of which the Gorilla is deathly afraid!

Best line I've read today: "We ain't takin' no more orders from a monkey, see?"

Shot again???!! Twice in two stories?? And burned as well?

If it wasn't for bad luck, the Gorilla would have no luck at all! Especially since this is his last appearance anywhere. Given as he seems to be a bullet magnet, that's probably a good thing for him.

He's in the public domain now, known as The Gorilla With the Human Brain. I'd love to see someone continue his story of vengeance and mayhem. Or maybe give us a glimpse of him now (if he wasn't killed outright), living out his years in a penitentiary - or more likely a zoo.

By the way, the character who took his spot in the next issue of BLUE BEETLE COMICS was that scheme the Gladiator.

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WHEN COMES...THE GORILLA!

With the Thor-God of Thunder/Dynamite Thor feature ending in BLUE BEETLE COMICS (vol. 1) #8, Fox Publications needed something to replace it to fill pages.

Ladies and gents, I present to you said replacement, the very first tale of The Gorilla, from BLUE BEETLE COMICS (vol. 1) #9 (October, 1941).

Stupid Castle! I guess he never learned that you shouldn't threaten your boss, especially if he's a mad scientist!

And old man Brock is pretty daft if he thought Castle was going to be happy about waking up as gorilla.

But at least Brock was thoughtful enough to transplant Castle's vocal cords along with his brain.

What a night Jack Castle is having: turned down "in a sharp way" by a beautiful girl, brain and vocal cords transplanted into a gorilla, killed his boss AND his oldest friend, shot by the same woman who turned him down, a now a fugitive in the city!

Whew! Comic book stories don't get much better than this, folks! I wonder what's in store next for our loquacious primate?

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