The Ape
“Jungle Beast or Man of Science?”
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
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Boris Karloff
Dr. Bernard Adrian
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Maris Wrixon
Frances Clifford
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Gene O'Donnell
Danny Foster
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Dorothy Vaughan
Mother Clifford
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Henry Hall
Sheriff Jeff Halliday
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Selmer Jackson
Dr. McNulty
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Gertrude Hoffmann
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Jessie Arnold
Mrs. Brill
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Billy Bletcher
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Harry C. Bradley
Quinn
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George Cleveland
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Ray Corrigan
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William Nigh Director · Curt Siodmak Screenplay Richard Carroll Screenplay
United States release September 30, 1940 · Produced in United States
Production
Monogram Pictures
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · September 30, 1940
Theatrical
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