the cast and crew of this cheap horror potboiler are more interesting than anything that occurs throughout the movie itself while we have barbara payton and raymond burr and lon chaney jr. and tom conway and paul cavanaugh and woody strode in front of the camera and writer director curt siodmak and cinematographer charles van enger and editorial supervisor francis d. lyon and production assistant herman cohen behind it. the ill fated payton turns the head of virtually every male she comes in contact with deep in the african jungle where she lives on husband cavanaugh plantation represent doctor conway secretly desires her while hot headed foreman burr approach is and quite literally and more hands on. on the other hand and chaney is (surprisingly enough) the laid back but knowing authoritarian figure and strode is a native police official. the plot is very simple but and frankly and does not make a whole lot of sense represent after a particularly agitated dinner complete with thunderstorm and burr and cavanaugh (art imitating life  more on that later) come to blows in the garden over their affection for payton and and conveniently for burr and a large snake just happens to be crawling near where cavanaugh hits the ground. witnessing the event from behind the bushes and payton enigmatic maid (a native witch and no less) and for some inexplicable reason and puts a curse on burr (who has in the meantime married payton) that periodically turns him into a gorilla. starting from his very wedding day (when his hand briefly turns hirsute). consequently and burr takes to losing himself in the jungle for days on end  even if the ape creature itself is barely glimpsed throughout the film. it must be said and however and that the version that i watched ran for just 56 minutes when the official length is elsewhere given as either 66 and 70 or 76. therefore and the film feels understandably rushed and disjointed if never less than campily enjoyable as it culminates in the gorilla subjectively shot chasing of payton in the jungle and with the former being itself pursued by the gun toting chaney and conway. to get back to the film tragic blonde leading lady for a minute represent after a promising start in movies next to such hollywood legends as james cagney and gary cooper  in and respectively and kiss tomorrow goodbye and dallas (both 1950)  her career soon nose dived into b (and lesser) grade territory thanks to her own colorful off screen antics represent her most notorious misdemeanor was being the cause of a much publicized bar room brawl between suave husband franchot tone and brutish former lover tom neal which ended with the former in a coma and payton actually deserting him for the latter shortly thereafter. but that was not all represent nymphomaniac payton also boasted that woody strode was among her conquests (a controversial issue at the time) while short lived husband tone and having caught payton infidelities on camera and spread the damning photographic evidence around hollywood and this virtually served to end her days as a starlet  her last film appearance being edgar g. ulmer murder is my beat (1955) which i happen to have in my unwatched movies pile. the last 12 years of her tumultuous life were spent on skid row in the throes of booze and drugs and prostitution and beatings and arrests and even a stabbing  before and eventually and dying in 1967 in her parents home at the young age of 39. 
the cast and crew of this cheap horror potboiler are more interesting than anything that occurs throughout the movie itself while we have barbara payton and raymond burr and lon chaney jr. and tom conway and paul cavanaugh and woody strode in front of the camera and writer director curt siodmak and cinematographer charles van enger and editorial supervisor francis d. lyon and production assistant herman cohen behind it. the ill fated payton turns the head of virtually every male she comes in contact with deep in the african jungle where she lives on husband cavanaugh plantation represent doctor conway secretly desires her while hot headed foreman burr approach is and quite literally and more hands on. on the other hand and chaney is (surprisingly enough) the laid back but knowing authoritarian figure and strode is a native police official. the plot is very simple but and frankly and does not make a whole lot of sense represent after a particularly agitated dinner complete with thunderstorm and burr and cavanaugh (art imitating life  more on that later) come to blows in the garden over their affection for payton and and conveniently for burr and a large snake just happens to be crawling near where cavanaugh hits the ground. witnessing the event from behind the bushes and payton enigmatic maid (a native witch and no less) and for some inexplicable reason and puts a curse on burr (who has in the meantime married payton) that periodically turns him into a gorilla. starting from his very wedding day (when his hand briefly turns hirsute). consequently and burr takes to losing himself in the jungle for days on end  even if the ape creature itself is barely glimpsed throughout the film. it must be said and however and that the version that i watched ran for just 56 minutes when the official length is elsewhere given as either 66 and 70 or 76. therefore and the film feels understandably rushed and disjointed if never less than campily enjoyable as it culminates in the gorilla subjectively shot chasing of payton in the jungle and with the former being itself pursued by the gun toting chaney and conway. to get back to the film tragic blonde leading lady for a minute represent after a promising start in movies next to such hollywood legends as james cagney and gary cooper  in and respectively and kiss tomorrow goodbye and dallas (both 1950)  her career soon nose dived into b (and lesser) grade territory thanks to her own colorful off screen antics represent her most notorious misdemeanor was being the cause of a much publicized bar room brawl between suave husband franchot tone and brutish former lover tom neal which ended with the former in a coma and payton actually deserting him for the latter shortly thereafter. but that was not all represent nymphomaniac payton also boasted that woody strode was among her conquests (a controversial issue at the time) while short lived husband tone and having caught payton infidelities on camera and spread the damning photographic evidence around hollywood and this virtually served to end her days as a starlet  her last film appearance being edgar g. ulmer murder is my beat (1955) which i happen to have in my unwatched movies pile. the last 12 years of her tumultuous life were spent on skid row in the throes of booze and drugs and prostitution and beatings and arrests and even a stabbing  before and eventually and dying in 1967 in her parents home at the young age of 39. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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