Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 1952
Running Times: 74 mins 75 mins
Format: black and white
Ratio:
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Jack Broder Productions
Executive Producer: Jack Broder
Producer: Maurice Duke
Associate Producer: Herman Cohen

SCRIPT
Script: Tim Ryan
Additional Dialogue: Edmond Seward, Leo 'Ukie' Sherin

DIRECTION
Director: William Beaudine
Assistant Director: Glenn Cook

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Charles Van Enger

EDITING
Editorial Supervisor: Philip Cahn

MUSIC
Music: Richard Hazard
Songs: Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose (Deed I Do); Nick Therry (Too Soon)
Songs Performed By: Duke Mitchell

SOUND
Sound: Dean Thomas

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Glen Alden
Hair: Ann Locker
Men's Wardrobe: Wesley V. Jefferies
Women's Wardrobe: Esther Krebs

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: James Sullivan
Set Decorator: Edward Boyle

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Helen McCaffrey
Assistant to Producer: Tony Roberts
Director of Choreography: Lee Scott
Dialogue Director: (Leo) 'Ukie' Sherin

CAST
Bela Lugosi (Dr Zabor)
Sammy Petrillo (Sammy Petrillo)
Duke Mitchell (Duke Mitchell)
Charlita (Nona)
Muriel Landers (Saloma)
Al Kikume (Chief Rakos)
Mickey Simpson (Chula)
Martin Garralaga (Pepe Bordo)
Milton Newberger (Bongo)
Steve Calvert (gorilla - uncredited)

A pair of Brooklyn entertainers, Sammy and Duke, find themselves stranded on a remote jungle island where they fall foul of a mad scientist, Dr Zabor. He's been experimenting on the locals and transforms Duke into a gorilla.

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Realart Pictures Inc
Vid Distributors: Sinister Cinema; Something Weird; Filmfax; Admit One; Englewood Entertainment; LS Video

1952
October
8: USA - theatrical release

1953
December
31: USA - television broadcast (on CBS)

1994
July
Day Unknown: UK - television broadcast (on UK Gold)

Brooklyn Chumps Become Island Monkeys In a Jungle Full of Laffs!

The Boys From Brooklyn - US TV title
The Monster Meets the Gorilla - UK title
Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

SEE ALSO
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
White Zombie (1932)
Island of Lost Souls (1933)
The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)
Road to Bali (1952)

MAGAZINES

Filmfax no.57 (October / November 1996) pp.30-31
illustrated review (by Scott MacGillivray)

Hollywood Reporter 8 September 1952
review, credits

Photoplay 19 p.32
review

BOOKS

Creature Features Strikes Again p.39
credits, review

Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies 1991 - 1992 p.38
review, credits

Horror and Science Fiction Films II p.28
credits

Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.30
credits

musicians; comedians; jungles; islands; scientists; gorillas; apes; human experiments