Gorilla at Large/Mystery on Monster Island
by Harmon Jones, Juan Piquer Sim?n
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Actor: David Hatton, Gasphar Ipua, Ian Sera, Peter Cushing, Terence StampDirector: Harmon Jones, Juan Piquer Sim?n
Brand: Unknown
Writer: Juan Piquer Sim?n
Writer: Barney Slater
Writer: Joaqu?n Grau
Writer: Jules Verne
Writer: Leonard Praskins
Writer: Ron Gantman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 189 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Movie Review: GORILLA AT LARGE deserves a better double billing!
Summary: 3 Stars
A real mixed bag here. One awesome flick, one horrible flick. The awesome: GORILLA AT LARGE, a solid circus noir with Raymond Burr, Cameron Mitchell and a very volutuous young Anne Bancroft--who routinely scoffed at the film once she became a "serious" actress--caught up in a clever puzzler involving a killer in a gorilla suit settling old scores on the fairgrounds and an actual gorilla that escapes its handler at suspiciously opportune times. This film, original in stereoscopic 3-D, gained a small second life in the early 80's when it was broadcast on many local American affiliate TV stations in anaglyphic 3-D (ugh!) much to the delight of kids like myself who were armed and ready (for headaches, mostly) with our specially purchased paper 3-D glasses. BWANA DEVIL also got this treatment, but GORILLA's a far more engrossing experience. The Spanish production THE MYSTERY ON MONSTER ISLAND (1981), on the other hand, is an utter waste of time. Peter Cushing and Terence Stamp each take top billing for about eight minutes screen time apiece, although one can't blame the producers for using such a ruse to lure audiences to this undeserving junk. Stamp's "character" appears for most of the film's climax, but he and his men are conveniently clad from head to toe so the producers can simply loop in Stamp's voice while some unnamed schmoe waves his arms around! The real stars are the lamentable non-actor Ian Sera, a regular for director Juan Piquer Simon (PIECES), and British vet David Hatton. Their adventure stranded on an island with an assortment of ridiculous creatures (including one dinosaur thingy that looks rather . . . inflated), an oh-so-clever monkey and a beautiful girl causes so much eye-rolling it hurts.
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