Oh, if only they'd had some money for classy camera work and editing because this is not a terrible film-- it just looks like crap. Mellifluous-voiced Karloff is an oddball doctor obsessed with curing spinal injuries and is distrusted by the local townspeople. The circus comes to town, an ape gets loose, and somehow Dr Adrian's experiments make miraculous headway! Not a bad Monogram horror: it has a story with a linear trajectory and logical conclusion, some moments of suspense (rather than outright confusion) and some of the players (outside of headliner Karloff) do make an impression. Ape suit worn by Ray "Crash" Corrigan, one of the "Range Busters" from the Monogram series of B-westerns.
In a later interview, Gene O'Donnell (who played Danny, numbskull boyfriend of Dr Adrian's patient Frances), claimed, "You want to know how much I got for The Ape? A hundred and twenty dollars, man!" That's worth about $1000 today, for seven days' solid work. I don't even want to know how Snooki manages to pull in $30,000 an episode. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Top-TV-Earners-1021717.aspx
In a later interview, Gene O'Donnell (who played Danny, numbskull boyfriend of Dr Adrian's patient Frances), claimed, "You want to know how much I got for The Ape? A hundred and twenty dollars, man!" That's worth about $1000 today, for seven days' solid work. I don't even want to know how Snooki manages to pull in $30,000 an episode. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Top-TV-Earners-1021717.aspx
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