The Ape is a 1940 American sci-fi horror film about a kindly mad scientist who seeks to cure a young woman’s polio.
Directed by William Nigh (The Ghost and the Guest; The Strange Case of Doctor Rx; Before I Hang) from a screenplay written by Curt Siodmak and Richard Carroll.
Plot:
Doctor Bernard Adrian (Boris Karloff) 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 terrorising townspeople…
The Ape (1940) – free on YouTube:
Cast and characters:
Boris Karloff … Doctor Bernard Adrian
Maris Wrixon … Miss Frances Clifford
Gene O’Donnell … Danny Foster
Dorothy Vaughan … Mother Clifford
Gertrude Hoffman … Jane – Adrian’s Housekeeper
Henry Hall … Sheriff Jeff Halliday
Selmer Jackson … Doctor McNulty
Jessie Arnold … Mrs Brill
Billy Bletcher … Short Moustached Posse Man
Harry C. Bradley … Quinn
George Cleveland … Mr Howley
Ray Corrigan … Nabu the Gorilla
Pauline Drake … Young Girl
Mary Field … Mrs Mason
Gibson Gowland … Posse Member
Julia Griffith … Townswoman
I. Stanford Jolley … Ape Trainer
Stan Jolley … Boy in Soda Shop
Jack Kennedy … Dep. Archie Tomlin
Donald Kerr … Citizen Carrying Mauled Ape Trainer
Philo McCullough … Henry Mason
Buddy Swan … Willie Brill
Minerva Urecal … Townswoman
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