The Ape
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| The Ape | |
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 A promotional film poster for "The Ape." |
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| Directed by | William Nigh |
| Produced by | William Nigh |
| Written by | Adam Shirk Curt Siodmak Richard Carroll |
| Starring | Boris Karloff Maris Wrixon Gene O'Donnell |
| Music by | Edward J. Kay |
| Cinematography | Harry Neumann |
| Editing by | Russell F. Schoengarth |
| Distributed by | Monogram Pictures Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 30 September 1940 |
| Running time | 62 min |
| Country |  |
| Language | English |
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The Ape is a 1940 horror film made for Monogram Pictures, co-written by Curt Siodmak and starring Boris Karloff.
[edit] Plot outline
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. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the towns people.
The Ape eventually breaks into Dr. Adrian's lab but the Doctor manages to kill it before any harm can come to himself. However, the spinal fluid he requires to perform his experiments have all been destroyed during the struggle between him and the Ape.
Doctor Adrian then concocts an idea - he will tear off the apes flesh and use its skin to disguise himself as the escaped circus animal and murder townspeople in order to extract their spinal fluid - thus the murders will be blamed on the Ape and he himself will manage to avoid any suspicion.
However, one of his attacks towards the film's end is unsuccessful and he is fatally knifed and the Ape's "true identity" is revealed.
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