Gorilla Films (1927-1968)
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1. Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Passed | 61 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan
Votes: 1,038
2. The Ape (1940)
Approved | 62 min | Horror
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs spinal fluid from a human to complete the formula for his experimental serum.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan
Votes: 2,062
3. Ingagi (1930)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An expedition enters an area of the Congo jungle to investigate reports of a gorilla-worshipping tribe. After many dangerous adventures, they come upon the tribe they sought, only to watch ... See full summary »
Director: William Campbell | Stars: Sir Hubert Winstead, Charles Gemora, Arthur Clayton, Louis Nizor
Votes: 212 | Gross: $4.00M
4. White Pongo (1945)
Approved | 71 min | Adventure
Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Richard Fraser, Maris Wrixon, Lionel Royce, Al Eben
Votes: 696
5. The House of Mystery (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Mystery
An ancient curse and a killer ape are contained inside an old dark mansion.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Ed Lowry, Verna Hillie, John Sheehan, Brandon Hurst
Votes: 398
6. The Ape Man (1943)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A crazed scientist accidentally turns himself into a half ape, half human creature, and scrambles to find a cure.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Louise Currie, Wallace Ford, Henry Hall
Votes: 1,505
7. Nabonga (1944)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Fifi D'Orsay, Barton MacLane, Julie London
Votes: 683
8. Hawkins & Watkins Inc. (1932)
22 min | Short, Comedy
Beatrice De Vere (Daphne Pollard), a wealthy eccentric, owns a fabulous diamond that is coveted by others. Thusly begins a slapstick farce that involves two dumb New York , with cockney ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Emmes | Stars: Daphne Pollard, Forrester Harvey, Matt McHugh, Walter Long
Votes: 9
9. Gorilla and the Maiden (1955)
10 min | Short
A strip club show made by a dancer and her gorilla partner.
10. The Savage Girl (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Comedy
A white jungle goddess is protected by a fierce killer gorilla.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Walter Byron, Harry Myers, Adolph Milar
Votes: 243
11. The Gorilla (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Horror
When a wealthy man is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: The Ritz Brothers, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, Al Ritz
Votes: 1,672
12. Return of the Ape Man (1944)
Approved | 60 min | Horror
A scientist seeks to transplant a brain into the body of a thawed caveman in order to get it to do his bidding.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, George Zucco, Frank Moran
Votes: 429
13. The Mad Monster (1942)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf in order to prove his supposedly crazy scientific theories - and exact revenge.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Johnny Downs, George Zucco, Anne Nagel, Glenn Strange
Votes: 1,940
14. Darkest Africa (1936)
Approved | 73 min | Adventure, Romance
A 15-episode serial in which Beatty goes to darkest Africa to rescue the Goddess of Joba, who is being held by the high priest.
Directors: B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane | Stars: Clyde Beatty, Manuel King, Elaine Shepard, Lucien Prival
Votes: 139
15. Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Horror
The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla.
Director: Curt Siodmak | Stars: Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney Jr., Raymond Burr, Tom Conway
Votes: 1,435
16. The White Gorilla (1945)
Not Rated | 62 min | Adventure
A white gorilla is snubbed by black gorillas because he is the wrong color. Cut off from his tribe he becomes lonely and angry. After troubling hunters and natives, the white gorilla fights... See full summary »
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Ray Corrigan, Lorraine Miller, George J. Lewis, Francis Ford
Votes: 552
17. Teenage Zombies (1959)
Approved | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A crazed female scientist uses nerve gas to turn local teenagers into her unquestioning slaves.
Director: Jerry Warren | Stars: Don Sullivan, Katherine Victor, Steve Conte, J.L.D. Morrison
Votes: 1,261
18. The Monster Walks (1932)
Passed | 57 min | Horror, Mystery
People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Mischa Auer, Martha Mattox, Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds
Votes: 1,085
19. The Bride and the Beast (1958)
Not Rated | 78 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
When Laura and Dan get married, she's more interested in Dan's gorilla. It's revealed through hypnosis that she was Queen of the Gorillas in a previous incarnation. By: Mark Rowan
Director: Adrian Weiss | Stars: Charlotte Austin, Lance Fuller, Johnny Roth, William Justine
Votes: 679
20. King Kong (1933)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Horror
A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher
Votes: 90,981 | Gross: $10.00M
21. Untamed Mistress (1956)
Approved | 72 min | Drama
Two men search the jungle for a woman who has been captured by a tribe of murderous gorillas. When they finally find her, they must fight off attacks by the gorillas, who are determined to keep her.
Directors: Ron Ormond, Allan Nixon | Stars: Allan Nixon, Jacqueline Fontaine, Byron Keith, John Martin
Votes: 121
22. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Passed | 61 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Ames, Bert Roach
Votes: 5,262
23. Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 8,217
24. Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Passed | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well.
Directors: Cedric Gibbons, James C. McKay, Jack Conway | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh
Votes: 5,572
25. Hollywood Party (1934)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
Jimmy Durante is jungle star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. So when Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws a big ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Boleslawski, Allan Dwan, Edmund Goulding, Russell Mack, Charles Reisner, Roy Rowland, George Stevens, Sam Wood | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Jack Pearl
Votes: 1,067
26. Murder in the Private Car (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A sleuth has to figure out who is threatening an heiress while she's aboard a train.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Una Merkel, Mary Carlisle, Russell Hardie
Votes: 677
27. Bring 'Em Back a Lie (1935)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A parody on "Bring 'Em Back Alive" big game hunting.
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Sterling Holloway, Phyllis Fraser, Ben Turpin, Ray Corrigan
28. Round-Up Time in Texas (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Drama, Music, Western
Gene and Frog arrive with a herd of horses for Gene's brother, a diamond prospector whose work has attracted the interest of a bunch of bad guys.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Maxine Doyle, The Cabin Kids
Votes: 256
29. Three Missing Links (1938)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
The stooges are janitors working in a movie studio. After wrecking the bosses office, they get jobs as actors in an African movie. Curly plays a gorilla and Moe and Larry are primitive ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Monte Collins
Votes: 547
30. You're Next! (1940)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
Two goofball private detectives are hired to find a millionaire who has been kidnapped by a mad scientist.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Walter Catlett, Monte Collins, Dudley Dickerson, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 17
31. The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)
Approved | 66 min | Horror, Mystery
A mysterious vigilante known as "Dr. Rx" strikes again. Assigned to the case is private detective Jerry Church but the crimes are baffling and involve strangulation and a possible attempt to implant a gorilla's brain into a human body.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Anne Gwynne, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 605
32. Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
Passed | 58 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
Dr. Larry Forbes visits the château of Dr. Robert Renault, uncle of his fiancée Madelon, who is idolized by Renault's assistant, a strange émigré from Java.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Shepperd Strudwick, Lynne Roberts, George Zucco
Votes: 547
33. Dizzy Detectives (1943)
Approved | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
The stooges are carpenters who become policemen. A mysterious burglar disguised as a gorilla has the cops baffled and Mr. Dill, the head of the citizens league, threatening the police ... See full summary »
Director: Jules White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dick Botiller
Votes: 641
34. She's for Me (1943)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Two lawyers fall for their beautiful client.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: David Bruce, Grace McDonald, Lois Collier, George Dolenz
Votes: 16
35. The Phantom (1943)
Passed | 299 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Phantom's clan has ruled the jungle tribes for centuries. He battles Dr. Bremmer who plans to build an airfield and gets greedy when Professor Davidson and his niece Diana arrive to search for the treasure of the lost city of Zoloz.
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Tom Tyler, Jeanne Bates, Ernie Adams, John Bagni
Votes: 473
36. The Monster Maker (1944)
Approved | 62 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist injects his enemies with an acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Ralph Morgan, Tala Birell, Wanda McKay
Votes: 1,262
37. The Hairy Ape (1944)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Film-Noir
During the 1940s, social class conflict is depicted when a spoiled socialite, traveling on a freighter, calls the ship's head stoker a hairy ape, provoking him into stalking the rich woman once ashore in New York.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: William Bendix, Susan Hayward, John Loder, Dorothy Comingore
Votes: 482
38. The Monster and the Ape (1945)
Passed | 295 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
At the Bainbridge Research Foundation, Professor Franklin Arnold displays his creation the Metalogen Man, a robot, to Professor Ernst and three other colleagues. Shortly afterward, the ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Robert Lowery, George Macready, Ralph Morgan, Carole Mathews
Votes: 107
39. Tall, Dark and Gruesome (1948)
16 min | Comedy, Short
Hugh is a businessman who is stressed out with work, so he decides to rent a cabin in the mountains for a weekend of relaxation, but a crate containing a live gorilla is delivered to the same place, causing pandemonium.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Dudley Dickerson, Heinie Conklin, Ray Corrigan
Votes: 23
40. Miraculous Journey (1948)
Approved | 83 min | Adventure
How a plane crash in the jungle affects the survivors after they are rescued.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Audrey Long, Virginia Grey, George Cleveland
Votes: 82
41. Unknown Island (1948)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Horror, Romance
An adventure seeker and his fiancée visit an uncharted island, only to find that it is inhabited by deadly dinosaurs and other creatures ready to attack.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Virginia Grey, Phillip Reed, Richard Denning, Barton MacLane
Votes: 790
42. Congo Bill (1948)
Approved | 270 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A girl is about to inherit a fortune, but she is missing in Africa. Only then, family charges Congo Bill, an adventurer, to find her, and bring her back to civilization. He follows a legend about some White Queen, but his path is full of difficulties, by an inhospitable jungle, and the man who will lose the fortune if the girl is found alive.
Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr | Stars: Don McGuire, Cleo Moore, Jack Ingram, I. Stanford Jolley
Votes: 113
43. Crime on Their Hands (1948)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
The stooges are janitors working in a newspaper office. When an anonymous caller phones in a tip about the theft a famous diamond, the boys decide to become reporters and go after the ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Kenneth MacDonald
Votes: 464
44. The Lost Tribe (1949)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Jungle Jim fights a lion and sharks trying to save an African village from those who would despoil it.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Myrna Dell, Elena Verdugo, Joseph Vitale
Votes: 393
45. Microspook (1949)
Approved | 16 min | Comedy, Short
As a publicity gimmick, Harry has to announce his radio show from a real haunted house.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Harry von Zell, Christine McIntyre, Emil Sitka, Dudley Dickerson
46. Zamba (1949)
Approved | 75 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The story of a boy raised by gorillas.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Jon Hall, June Vincent, Jane Nigh, Beau Bridges
Votes: 61
47. Forbidden Jungle (1950)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A hunter is hired to take an expedition deep into the African jungle to search for a white boy lost in a plane crash years before, and who has been rumored to be living among the wild animals.
Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Don C. Harvey, Forrest Taylor, Alyce Louis, Robert Cabal
Votes: 129
48. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
Not Rated | 74 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Duke Mitchell, Sammy Petrillo, Charlita
Votes: 2,619
49. Adventures of Captain Africa: Mighty Jungle Avenger! (1955)
Approved | 225 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Trapper Nat Coleman and government agent Ted Arnold come upon a plot to take over an African nation. Its leader, Caliph Abdul el Hamid, has been exiled from his country and replaced by a ... See full summary »
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: John Hart, Rick Vallin, Ben Welden, June Howard
Votes: 77
50. Goose Flesh (1927)
25 min | Comedy, Short
Lloyd is a detective in a private firm of crime hounds. Business is very slack until the firm gets a peculiar sort of case. At the house of old Bixby, a millionaire, mysterious messages ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Lloyd Hamilton, Estelle Bradley, Fred Spencer, Al Thompson
51. The Leopard Lady (1928)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
Paula (Jacqueline Logan), a leopard trainer known as the Leopard Lady, is hired by police to join a circus and investigate a series of thefts and murders. She discovers that Caesar (Alan ... See full summary »
Director: Rupert Julian | Stars: Jacqueline Logan, Alan Hale, Robert Armstrong, Hedwiga Reicher
Votes: 18
52. His Favorite Wife (1928)
Short, Comedy
Director: Orville O. Dull | Stars: Tyler Brooke, Mary Ashcraft, Vernon Dent, Florence Allen
53. The Circus Kid (1928)
68 min | Drama
A young waif (Frankie Darro) runs away from a harsh orphanage in order to join the circus.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Frankie Darro, Poodles Hanneford, Joe E. Brown, Helene Costello
Votes: 41
54. Do Gentlemen Snore? (1928)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Max Davidson, Gene Morgan, Spec O'Donnell, Dorothy Coburn
55. Tarzan the Mighty (1928)
300 min | Action, Adventure
Mary and Bobby Trevor are castaways befriended by Tarzan. When Lord arrives, looking for the family heir, Black John tries to fill that role and marry Mary in England. Tarzan shows up and marries her instead.
Directors: Jack Nelson, Ray Taylor | Stars: Frank Merrill, Al Ferguson, Natalie Kingston, Bobby Nelson
Votes: 56
56. Why Gorillas Leave Home (1929)
Comedy, Short
Director: Arvid E. Gillstrom | Stars: Bobby Vernon, Charles Gemora, Judith Barrett, Eddie Baker
57. Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help with one of her father's guests shortly before his planned departure. Her suspicions about ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, Sheldon Lewis, William V. Mong
Votes: 481
58. Stark Mad (1929)
Passed | 70 min | Mystery
An expedition sets out through the jungle to find a missing explorer, but stumbles upon an ancient Mayan temple that houses a giant ape.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: H.B. Warner, Louise Fazenda, Jacqueline Logan, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 30
59. The Devil Bear (1929)
Drama
Director: Louis Chaudet | Stars: Dorothy Dwan, Carroll Nye, Mitchell Lewis, Charlie Crockett
60. The Holy Terror (1929)
20 min | Family, Comedy, Short
Mary Ann is becoming a serious problem to the other gang members and Joe was given the job of training and controlling her behavior.
Director: Robert A. McGowan | Stars: Joe Cobb, Jean Darling, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins, Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins
61. Where East Is East (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
When an animal trapper in Indo-China finds that his daughter's fiancé is being successfully seduced by her estranged mother, he takes appropriate action.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Lupe Velez, Estelle Taylor, Lloyd Hughes
Votes: 724
62. His Baby Daze (1929)
19 min | Comedy, Short
Director: Gilbert Pratt | Stars: Lloyd Hamilton, 'Little Billy' Rhodes, Eddie Barry, Glen Cavender
63. Tarzan the Tiger (1929)
Passed | 266 min | Action, Adventure
After Tarzan's estate is destroyed by Arabs Jane is sold into slavery by a man posing as a friendly scientist.
Director: Henry MacRae | Stars: Frank Merrill, Natalie Kingston, Al Ferguson, Lillian Worth
Votes: 147
64. Bear Shooters (1930)
Approved | 20 min | Family, Comedy, Short
While on a camping trip, the gang comes across poachers.
Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins, Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins
Votes: 320
65. Los cazadores de osos (1930)
20 min | Short, Comedy
The kids go on a camping trip, and run into some bootleggers.
Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Norman 'Chubby' Chaney, Jackie Cooper, Dinah, Pete the Dog
66. The Unholy Three (1930)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
"Talkie" remake of Tod Browning's 1925 silent film. A trio of former sideshow performers double as the "Unholy Three" in a scam to nab some shiny rocks.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Lon Chaney, Lila Lee, Elliott Nugent, Harry Earles
Votes: 1,394
67. Rain or Shine (1930)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Woman inherits a traveling circus which brings financial difficulties.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers, William Collier Jr.
Votes: 459
68. Pure and Simple (1930)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Louise Fazenda, Harry Bowen, Irving Bacon, George Chandler
69. The Gorilla (1930)
70 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape.
Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Joe Frisco, Harry Gribbon, Walter Pidgeon, Lila Lee
Votes: 53
70. Are You There? (1930)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Music
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Beatrice Lillie, John Garrick, Olga Baclanova, George Grossmith
Votes: 19
71. The Cohens and the Kellys in Africa (1930)
70 min | Comedy
Cohen and Kelly families go to Africa to buy elephant tusks.
Director: Vin Moore | Stars: George Sidney, Charles Murray, Vera Gordon, Kate Price
Votes: 22
72. Scared Stiff (1931)
17 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Monte Collins, Tom Dugan, Tom O'Brien, Kit Guard
73. Ghost Parade (1931)
Passed | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Mystery
A series of strange, inexplicable, and increasingly frightening events takes place in Mosby Manor.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Andy Clyde, Marjorie Beebe, Harry Gribbon, Frank Eastman
Votes: 125
74. Monkey Business in Africa (1931)
22 min | Short, Comedy
A wacky bunch of explorers go to the "I'm Gagging country" (reference to Ingagi, released the same year) to make an African picture on a Gorilla and his girl.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Andy Clyde, Marjorie Beebe, Frank Eastman, Luis Alberni
Votes: 20
75. Nu-Ma-Pu - Cannibalism (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Adventure
Cannibalism in the Solomon Islands.
Director: William Campbell | Stars: Louis Nizor, Arthur Clayton, Charles Gemora
Votes: 18
76. Sealskins (1932)
21 min | Short, Comedy
The Royal Seal of Siberia has been stolen, and a secretary with dreams of being a newspaper reporter thinks she has a lead on its location. Unfortunately, that location is a creepy boarding house filled with strange characters.
Directors: Morey Lightfoot, Gilbert Pratt | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Thelma Todd, Frank Austin, Harry Earles
Votes: 64
77. The Chimp (1932)
Passed | 25 min | Short, Comedy
Two bumbling circus performers inadvertently help drive the circus into ruin and then end up in possession of a flea circus and an oversized chimp.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns, Baldwin Cooke
Votes: 1,503
78. Blonde Venus (1932)
Passed | 93 min | Drama
A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Herbert Marshall, Dickie Moore
Votes: 5,624
79. The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, History
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor Nero.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, Elissa Landi, Charles Laughton
Votes: 2,700 | Gross: $5.97M
80. Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad doctor conducts ghastly genetic experiments on a remote island in the South Seas, much to the fear and disgust of the shipwrecked sailor who finds himself trapped there.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams
Votes: 10,908
81. Nature in the Wrong (1933)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
Charley, hoping to find cultured people in his ancestry in order to be suitable to Muriel's family, is tricked by his rival Ronnie into believing himself a descendant of Tarzan. Conked on the head, Charley suddenly believes he IS Tarzan.
Director: Charley Chase | Stars: Charley Chase, Muriel Evans, Carlton Griffin, Nora Cecil
Votes: 78
82. Sing, Bing, Sing (1933)
Not Rated | 19 min | Comedy, Musical, Short
After singing over the radio, Bing Crosby transmits a signal to elope to his sweeheart Helen; but her father is listening too. Undaunted, Bing tries, tries again.
Director: Babe Stafford | Stars: Bing Crosby, Florine McKinney, Irving Bacon, Franklin Pangborn
Votes: 150
83. So This Is Africa (1933)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Musical
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. They are hired by a movie producer who wishes to send ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Raquel Torres, Esther Muir
Votes: 155
84. The Lost Jungle (I) (1934)
Approved | 243 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Animal trainer Clyde Beatty heads a rescue party in search of his girl, Ruth, and her father who get lost looking for an uncharted island. His dirigible crashes into the jungles of the ... See full summary »
Directors: David Howard, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Clyde Beatty, Syd Saylor, Cecilia Parker, Edward LeSaint
Votes: 265
85. Bum Voyage (1934)
Approved | 19 min | Comedy, Short
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly, Adrian Rosley, Noah Young
Votes: 57
86. Gum Shoes (1935)
Approved | 21 min | Comedy, Short
Two house detectives investigate a series of robberies committed by a trained gorilla.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Monte Collins, Tom Kennedy, Lynton Brent, Charles Gemora
Votes: 14
87. Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)
Approved | 72 min | Mystery
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, George Brasno, Olive Brasno
Votes: 1,806
88. Oh, Doctor (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy
A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Donrue Leighton, William Hall, Eve Arden
89. Swiss Miss (1938)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Musical
Laurel and Hardy, rat trap salesmen who are unable to do business in Switzerland, having no money to pay for lunch end up working for the hotel where a composer, who has run away from his wife, has taken refuge.
Directors: John G. Blystone, Hal Roach | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Grete Natzler, Walter Woolf King
Votes: 2,328
90. At the Circus (1939)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical
The Marx Brothers try to help the owner of a circus recover some stolen funds before he finds himself out of a job.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kenny Baker
Votes: 6,467
91. The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
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.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 755
92. Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Passed | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel
Votes: 3,373
93. Two Weeks to Live (1943)
Passed | 76 min | Action, Comedy
When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perform all kinds of dangerous stunts.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Franklin Pangborn, Kay Linaker
Votes: 222
94. Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Harold Peary, Marion Martin, Richard LeGrand, Amelita Ward
Votes: 445
95. Who Killed 'Doc' Robbin? (1948)
Passed | 55 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
Director: Bernard Carr | Stars: Larry Olsen, Eilene Janssen, Peter Miles, Ardda Lynwood
Votes: 354
96. Africa Screams (1949)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck
Votes: 4,057
97. White Witch Doctor (1953)
Passed | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In 1907, a nurse arrives in the Belgian Congo to work for a missionary doctor but meets a grumpy animal hunter who secretly plans to search for gold in the dangerous Bakuba tribal region.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Walter Slezak, Mashood Ajala
Votes: 760
98. So You Want to Be Your Own Boss (1954)
Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Short
Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss in this Joe McDoakes Comedy entry, opens up a new restaurant. Complaining customers and a sanitation inspector who closes the restaurant are just some of Joe's problems.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: George O'Hanlon, Phil Arnold, Rodney Bell, Jesslyn Fax
Votes: 28
99. Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, Steve Forrest
Votes: 1,128 | Gross: $1.45M
100. Mardi Gras (1958)
Unrated | 107 min | Musical
A military school cadet Boone wins a date with a French movie goddess (Carère) who happens to be the queen of the "Mardi Gras" parade. They fall in love, but Carère's movie studio wants to capitalize on this newly found love for publicity.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Pat Boone, Christine Carère, Tommy Sands, Sheree North
Votes: 244
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