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Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island.Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island.Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island.
Ramona the Chimp
- Romona
- (as Ramona the Chimp)
Steve Calvert
- Gorilla
- (uncredited)
Ray Corrigan
- Gorilla
- (uncredited)
Jerado Decordovier
- Native Warrior
- (uncredited)
Luigi Faccuito
- Native Warrior
- (uncredited)
Joe Garcio
- Native Warrior
- (uncredited)
Max Reid
- Native Warrior
- (uncredited)
William Wilkerson
- Native Warrior
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaIn his research and preparation for playing Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994), the biopic of cult director Edward D. Wood Jr., Martin Landau watched this film three times stunned, saying that it was so bad "it made the Ed Wood films look like Gone with the Wind (1939)".
- GoofsThere are no jungles that have both lions and tigers. In addition, many of the animals mentioned in the prologue would not be found on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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Sammy Petrillo: This looks like Death not only took a holiday, but he got a hangover from taking it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Hollywood Ghost Stories (1986)
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Cult camp no budget nonsense
BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA barely qualifies as a proper film, although it is a madcap rip-off of a popular comedy series pairing up Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. This one stars the exceptionally irritating Sammy Petrillo (who looks just like Jim Carrey in DUMB AND DUMBER, except this time it's for real) and his buddy Duke Mitchell who travel to a remote Pacific island to live it up with the natives.
The whole film consists of their various encounters with jungle flora and fauna, from dancing native girls to chimpanzees (a welcome cameo from Tarazan's Cheetah) and even a gorilla or two. Inevitably the action is silly and the humour even sillier, although horror fans might be interested to see Bela Lugosi here, as reliable as ever in support as a sinister mad scientist type, forever conducting weird experiments. Lugosi hams it up a treat and is really the only reason to bother sitting through such a dated and otherwise pointless film. It's no surprise director William Beaudine directed around 350 movies when they were of this calibre.
The whole film consists of their various encounters with jungle flora and fauna, from dancing native girls to chimpanzees (a welcome cameo from Tarazan's Cheetah) and even a gorilla or two. Inevitably the action is silly and the humour even sillier, although horror fans might be interested to see Bela Lugosi here, as reliable as ever in support as a sinister mad scientist type, forever conducting weird experiments. Lugosi hams it up a treat and is really the only reason to bother sitting through such a dated and otherwise pointless film. It's no surprise director William Beaudine directed around 350 movies when they were of this calibre.
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- The Boys from Brooklyn
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- $50,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 14 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) officially released in Canada in English?
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