The Movie in Short:
When two entertainers, Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo, get lost on the strange island of Cola-Cola things start to get hairy. The island chieftain's daughter, Nona (Charlita), takes Duke and Sammy in and introduces then to a little island culture.
During an island feast Duke give his best performance that included a number called "'DEED I DO" sung to his island sweet heart Nora. Sammy, however, becomes the love interest of Nora's sister Saloma, and spends the remainder of his time on the island hiding from her love.
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The island is a lush paradise that hides the secrets of the Dr. Zabor who is conducting experiments in evolution. The beautiful Nora, who also happens to be Zabor's assistant, introduces Duke and Sammy to Zabor and that's when things start to go wrong.
Zabor has been harboring feelings of love for Nora and will let nothing stand in his way. Zabor mixes up a potion of evolution and after abducting his competition, uses it on Duke to turn him into a gorilla.
Review:
The movie as a whole was good for a laugh. There were obvious plot holes, and the writer must never have studied geography. The movies "theme" song "Deed I Do" is sung with what I can only call a "toads croaking voice." Hey, even the gorilla gets a singing role in this one. Duke and Sammy's blatant rip-off of Martin & Lewis' act makes the film even more entertaining
Bela Lugosi plays a rather convincing mad-scientist in this movie as Dr. Zabor and "is the only white-man on the island." Funny, I thought that almost all the cast and all the islanders were white with the exception of two or three Polynesians that made a brief appearance. Of course the entire movie is shot in Black and White so it can be rather hard to tell. (Not really though)
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla has a surprise ending that was definitely worth the 25 cents we paid for this film. The movie is a one time must see and as our first B movie, I would only give it 3 out of 5 stars.
Rating: NA ( PG by my standards)
Stars: 3/5
Cost: 25 Cents
Reviewed By: Brandon
This movie was hilarious! They couldn't decide if they were in Africa or the Philippines. The gorilla transformation was "magic."
"Baby baby" you must see.