Movie Review: The Ape (1940)
Synopsis: After losing his wife and daughter to polio, Dr. Bernard Adrian is determined to find a way to reverse the paralysis caused by the disease. However, because his process is considered controversial, he only has one patient, Frances Clifford, a young woman who is confined to a wheelchair. When a circus trainer is mauled by an escaped ape, Adrian takes advantage and steals some of the man's spinal fluid and learns his theory about using the substance to regenerate the nerves is correct. Needing more, Adrian kills the ape and dressed as the creature, commits murder. Who's in it? The movie stars Boris Karloff , Maris Wrixon , Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan and Henry Hall . Review: I've had The Ape on my watch list for several years but just never found the time to watch it until finally doing so this morning. Ultimately, the film wasn't quite what I was expecting it to be, but it wasn't a terrible movie either. I think, at least by today's standar...