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The Bride and the Beast

  • 1958
  • Approved
  • 1h 18min
CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
3.4/10
744
TU CALIFICACIÓN
Charlotte Austin and Ray Corrigan in The Bride and the Beast (1958)
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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaWhen 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.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.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.

  • Dirección
    • Adrian Weiss
  • Guionistas
    • Edward D. Wood Jr.
    • Adrian Weiss
  • Elenco
    • Charlotte Austin
    • Lance Fuller
    • Johnny Roth
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  • CALIFICACIÓN DE IMDb
    3.4/10
    744
    TU CALIFICACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Adrian Weiss
    • Guionistas
      • Edward D. Wood Jr.
      • Adrian Weiss
    • Elenco
      • Charlotte Austin
      • Lance Fuller
      • Johnny Roth
    • 34Opiniones de los usuarios
    • 20Opiniones de los críticos
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    Charlotte Austin
    Charlotte Austin
    • Laura
    Lance Fuller
    Lance Fuller
    • Dan
    Johnny Roth
    • Taro
    William Justine
    • Dr. Reiner
    Jeanne Gerson
    • Marka
    Gil Frye
    • Capt. Cameron
    Trustin Howard
    • Soldier
    • (as Slick Slavin)
    Bhogwan Singh
    Bhogwan Singh
    • Native
    Eve Brent
    Eve Brent
    • Stewardess
    • (as Jean Ann Lewis)
    Steve Calvert
    Steve Calvert
    • Gorilla
    • (sin créditos)
    Ray Corrigan
    Ray Corrigan
    • Spanky (the wife-stealing gorilla)
    • (sin créditos)
    Bobby Small
    • Gorilla
    • (sin créditos)
    • Dirección
      • Adrian Weiss
    • Guionistas
      • Edward D. Wood Jr.
      • Adrian Weiss
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    Opiniones de usuarios34

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    3ChuckStraub

    Disjointed and boring, not recommended.

    "The Bride and the Beast" starts off well with lots of potential that this could be a pretty good movie. The plot revolves around a man, his newlywed wife, and her strange connection with gorillas. Then the couple goes to Africa and the movie unravels. Forget all about the first part of the movie. Put it on the shelf for a while because you won't need to remember it again until you get to the end. You next get lots of terrible stock footage of African animals and the plot takes a side road as the husband hunts down two tigers. It's almost as though it turned into a Safari movie and a boring one at that. As you watch the different animals, the background scenery changes dramatically from shot to shot. The scenes, especially of the animals are shot in all different kinds of terrain. Very poorly done. At this point there is barely a string connecting the beginning of the movie to the middle. This goes on for quite a while. Nearing the end of the movie, they drop the safari and hunting and go back to the man, woman, gorilla plot to end the movie. It's too bad because this one had a chance if they just stuck with the original plot throughout the film. The Bride and the Beast" is disjointed and boring, not recommended.
    6BA_Harrison

    She likes her men hairy. Very hairy.

    Just married, big game hunter Dan Fuller (Lance Fuller) and his drop-dead-gorgeous bride Laura (Charlotte Austin) drive to Dan's home to do what newlyweds do, but only after they've said hello to Dan's gorilla Spanky (Ray Corrigan), who is kept in the basement. Having taken a fancy to Laura (he's not the only one), Spanky busts out of his cage and creeps upstairs to take a closer look, whipping off the woman's night-dress, leaving Dan no choice but to go for his gun.

    Shaken by the experience, Laura suffers from nightmares about the jungle, so Dan calls in his doctor friend, who uses hypnotism to try and get to the root of the problem. Regressing Laura, they learn that she was a gorilla in a past life, which doesn't bode well for her honeymoon... in deepest, darkest Africa: gorilla country! Against the doctor's advice, the Fullers continue with their planned excursion, happily hunting and trapping wild animals, but the fun stops when they are faced with two escaped man-eating tigers, and Mrs. Fuller is carried off into the jungle by a gorilla, who wants her to be his queen!

    Anyone who knows a thing or two about Edward D. Wood Jr. (co-writer of The Bride and the Beast ) surely can't help but be amused by Laura's fondness for angora sweaters. But that's not the only funny thing about this movie... I mean, there's a gorilla called Spanky that's clearly a man in a fancy dress costume, the whole notion of being the reincarnation of a gorilla is quite preposterous, and it's patently clear that lions weren't available to the film-makers, so they had to try and work a couple of tigers into the plot instead. And that ending!

    That said, the film isn't as inept as one of Wood's directorial efforts, Adrian Weiss being a competent enough director to make his movie appear relatively professional, despite the daft plot; it's no work of art, but he knows how to compose a scene and keep the pace lively, even with an overreliance on stock footage at times. It doesn't hurt either that Austin is such a babe: she's a delight whenever she is on screen (even when Laura is encouraging her heroic husband to slaughter another magnificent wild animal) and it's a shame that she didn't go on to bigger and better things.

    I had fun, hence my probably overgenerous rating of 5.5/10, rounded up to 6 for Austin.
    Flak_Magnet

    Uneven, but periodically terrific Ed Wood Schlock

    This film starts out wonderfully, with a great, hokey premise; silly dialogue, a cute newlywed couple, and a guy in a gorilla suit. In fact, after the first 15-min or so, "Bride and the Beast" began to approach classic, almost essential, 1950's B-film territory. However, the story takes a sudden and unwelcome turn when a seemingly innocuous subplot, which involves 2 Indian tigers escaping from captivity and entering into a killing spree upon several unseen African villages, balloons out-of-control and cannibalizes the main storyline for a full 30-minutes, wherein we are given seemingly endless stock footage of these tigers, both in the wild and on various studio "jungle" sets. (Admitingly, a lot of this stock footage is excellent, but it was way overdone). It isn't until the final 10-minutes that the story returns to the original plot line, which involves the newlywed couple coming-to-grips with the wife's past life a powerful gorilla queen, de facto overlord of the jungle and her subconscious desire to return to the wild, as well as her instinctual attraction to her husband's pet gorilla. The overall story is sort of a childish metaphor about the animalistic nature of man. In the end, we're basically presented with a question: "who is the real beast, man or nature?" Pretty decent stuff, really, considering the pedigree. In fact, this is probably Ed Wood's third best screenplay, IMO, with the top spots reserved for the delicious and untouchable "Orgy of the Dead," and the slightly lesser, but still wholly classic "Bride of the Monster." I like "Bride and the Beast," but its ultimately too average to recommend to anyone but Wood's completists. Man, this could have been a real classic, though. Oh well...moving on. ---|--- Reviews by Flak Magnet
    dougdoepke

    Bridey Murphy Goes Gorilla

    Seeing Ed Wood's name as screenwriter, I flapped my arms like a fly drawn to fly-paper. Expecting a whirl through 1950's cheeze land, for which Wood was infamous, I instead got something I wasn't expecting. Not that the flick's either good or cheezy in the conventional senses: it's not. But the 78-minutes does manage to be a little different.

    Back in the mid-50's, a Colorado housewife (Bridey Murphy) claimed a regression through hypnosis to a former life as a 19th century Irish girl. It became a hot public story at the time. People liked to imagine, I suspect, what previous lives they too might have had. Anyhow, I expect Murphy's story inspired this episode of movie regression.

    Overall, the flick's plot is oddly flatlined by too much African stock footage that pads rather than develops; plus a leading man (Fuller) whose face remains frozen regardless the level of danger. Too bad he couldn't get interested, but then this cheapo was a comedown for his rising career. Then too, the loose gorilla suits that badly need a fitting don't help. Together, these elements unfortunately drain rather than promote the story's unusual potential.

    On the other hand, tbere's leading lady Austin's sterling performance, more worthy of an A-production than a cheapo. Catch her beautifully shaded expressions in a role that could easily have gone over the top. Too bad her career was so brief. Then too, the ending came as a big surprise to me. All in all, it's an exceptional climax for the conformist 1950's.

    Anyway, the movie's an obscurity for good reason, unless, that is, you like a lot of big cats pointlessly running around stock footage jungles. Nonetheless, writer Wood does manage to come through in the end. So thanks Ed for the memorable last touch.
    thepringlegame

    an attempt nonetheless

    i was pleasently surprised at the first half an hour of this film. i was expected the usual hand held cameras, dodgy acting, minimum scene listing etc. i came to the conclusion that this film must have been made later into Ed Woods career until i looked at the box and saw it predates Plan 9. granted the stock safari footage later in the film and the impression we get that Ed Wood forgot his own plot during the indian tiger's sequence, this film i would rate higher than the rest of his other works. underneath all that is bad you can genuinely see that he had a vision.

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    • Trivia
      The original working title was Queen of the Gorillas.
    • Errores
      When Spanky the gorilla bumps into the stone wall, it wobbles.
    • Citas

      Laura: [under hypnosis] Angora

      [breath]

      Laura: sweater was such, such, a beautiful thing. Soft like kitten's fur. It felt so good on me. As if it, as if it belonged there. It felt so bad when it was gone.

    • Conexiones
      Edited from El tigre de Kumaon (1948)

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 23 de febrero de 1958 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • Queen of the Gorillas
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Bronson Caves, Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos
    • Productora
      • Adrian Weiss Productions
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      1 hora 18 minutos
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      • Black and White
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      • 1.85 : 1

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