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LOOSE! and thirsting for revenge...a huge gorilla with a human brain!
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
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The Monster and the Girl
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Ellen Drew Robert Paige Paul Lukas Joseph Calleia Onslow Stevens George Zucco Rod Cameron Phillip Terry Marc Lawrence Gerald Mohr Bud Jamison Tom Dugan Willard Robertson Minor Watson George Meader Cliff Edwards Emory Parnell Knox Manning Lowden Adams Eric Alden Sidney Algier Sergei Arabeloff Bobby Barber George Barton Abner Biberman Edward Biby John Bleifer Sammy Blum Harry C. Bradley Show All…
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Οι Έξι Μελλοθάνατοι, 怪兽与女孩, El monstruo y la joven, A Bela e o Monstro
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28 Feb 1941
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While trying to save his sister from a rival mobster, a gangster gets framed for murder and is executed... enter Mad scientist George Zucco—who manages salvage his brain and transplant it into the body of a gorilla lol. Using his new found stength, gorilla man begins stalking the gangsters and picking them off one by one (including some really cool rooftop scenes!)
One part mobster flick, one part mad scientist movie, and one part monster film—The Monster And the Girl definitely isn’t one of my favorites from the era, but it does have its charms, plus I’ll watch George Zucco in anything.
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i dont really know if this movie counts because its not an origanal universal film they bought it from parmount in 1958.
but hey wikipedia say it is so who am i to say somthing agianst it.
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Noirvember 2024
“Help yourself, mister. Help yourself.”
This one really needs more love. How Stuart Heisler somehow balances 64 minutes of ludicrous plot and genre-bending while maintaining a dark as night atmosphere is remarkable.
A turducken of 40s exploitation, The Monster and the Girl manages to be a B pulp flick about a church organist framed for murder after trying to save his sister from prostitution, a B sci-fi flick about said organist’s brain being transplanted into a gorilla by a mad scientist, and a B horror flick about said organist in a classic gorilla suit terrorizing the gangsters holding his sister hostage. The Crow, eat your heart out.
Perfect if you’re looking for a noir curveball.
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Starts out as a mafia story/courtroom drama, all very normal, and then wonderfully transitions into a crazed monster movie as our apish antihero hunts down the gangsters who he dimly recalls had wronged him in his past, like if King Kong were a revenge flick, or maybe kinda a reverse Murders of the Rue Morgue, I guess? Much like The Fly and Phantom of the Opera, in situ are the tragic elements of a doomed soul reaching out to someone they love from nearly beyond the grave. Where exactly does this puzzle piece fit into film history? A genu-wine one-of-a-kind, this one.
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The first half of The Monster and the Girl is a full-blown convoluted courtroom drama that could've been left on the cutting room floor. But then ... an incredible ape appears! And a very sad-looking one at that. Almost to a comedic extent. Loved him and his half of the film.
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Though there are science fiction and horror elements in this film, it is the moody visual presentation that makes this a precursor of film noir.
This is a Paramount production, one of the studio's relatively rare ventures into horror...and wouldn't you know it, they tack on an almost taboo subplot that Universal wouldn't have touched with a ten-foot pole.
Ellen Drew's character is a small town girl who longs to "be somebody" and feels an allure for the big city. Though her brother has misgivings, she goes to Gotham...or some big city that looks suspiciously like New York.
Before long, our naive mid-westerner gets duped into prostitution and finds every step a walk of shame. (This is 1941 and the…
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Gorilla (gərɪlə / plural gorillas): a large herbivorous ape that comes from western Africa
Monster (mɒnstəʳ / plural monsters): a gorilla with a human brain -
Ape revenge!
If you went into this blind, you would never guess from the opening trial scenes that this movie was about a man’s brain put into an ape’s body.
I really liked the look of the ape suit. It’s surprisingly emotive. There’s a scene where he visits his sister’s house and the dog recognizes him and wants to play fetch and it’s really sweet! He murders someone immediately after, but that’s neither here nor there.
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I watched this last night on TCM with guest presenter, John Landis, and although he seemed to think this was some sort of B-movie masterpiece, I beg to differ.
It does get points for attempting to cram as many genres as possible into a single film (noir, gangster, white slavery, courtroom drama, mad-scientist, and rampaging gorilla), but it unfortunately doesn't do any of them real justice due to the short running time, so you're left with a bunch of rushed, half-baked vignettes that really don't make much sense when strung together. The subplot featuring George Zucco as a mad-scientist who thinks that transplanting a human brain into a gorilla will somehow speed-up human evolution is especially nonsensical.
However, it does…
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The Gorilla suit in this is just wonderful. It’s heads and shoulders above the ones you see in other movies of the period, which tend to be ratty looking. This one actually looks like a real gorilla (you could use it in a movie today and not raise too many eyebrows) and most impressively, allows the actor inside to actually emote, using just the eyes to show an intelligent, thinking being within.
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White slavery, a brain transplant and a killer ape seeking revenge are all components in this Paramount classic and makes this one a must-see for fans of mad science and crime thrillers. Not only does it have one of the more bizarre and convoluted plots for a B-picture but it's got George Zucco as a "mad" scientist and one of the best ape suits in Hollywood. What's not to love?
The performances in The Monster and the Girl are solid, with Ellen Drew delivering a compelling portrayal of a determined and courageous sister and she brings a sense of vulnerability to her character, making her journey all the more poignant, but my favourite performance in this film comes from that…
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