Wednesday, January 20, 2010

THE GORILLA / 20th Century Fox - 1939

Hello everbloody, welcome to 'nother Wednesday B+W Oldie Bijou Flicktime Theater Feature with 'nother amazing soundclip with host, Tabonga!

Tabonga give you 3 guess who star in today' flick!

The Ritz Bros., Al, Jimmy and Harry, help entertain the folks during the depression and WWII, appearing in flick like THE THREE MUSKETEERS and KENTUCKY MOONSHINE. Jimmy even appear in BLAZING STEWARDESSES and ZEBRA FORCE! Last Ritz Bros. flick wuz WON TON TON, THE DOG WHO SAVED HOLLYWOOD in 1976.

Original music by David Buttolph and David Raksin, who were busy with 318 combined composing credit with flick like NIGHT KEY, SH! THE OCTOPUS, ANDY HARDY, THE DARING YOUNG MAN, PIGSKIN PARADE, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, SWANEE RIVER, THE MARK OF ZORRO, WHISPERING GHOST, A HAUNTING WE WILL GO, THE HITLER GANG, SHOCK, SUPERMAN, THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, PHANTOM OF THE RUE MORGUE, EARTH vs THE FLYING SAUCERS and 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH! Mr. Raksin's last credit was in 1999!!

Tabonga' pet Tarantula Ralphie set and ready to be pushin' that big ol' red 'GO' button and get soundclip a rolling... So, get ready for... THE GORILLA!!

Tagline sez... "A Ritz is afraid of nothing ... but ... THIS ... IS ... SOMETHING!"

It not bad enough that Gorilla terrorizing countryside, but Maniac Murderer too?!

Here is Patsy Kelly as Kitty, the maid. She spending time wif' dead guy, William Shakespeare, well, until damn crazy Gorilla show up!

Kitty run down stairs and find Bela, who playing Peters the Butler. Bela acting suspicious to make audience think he probably bad guy, what else?!..

Lionel Atwill play Mr. Walter Stevens, who just receive death note from unknown someone, so, he call Acme Detective Agency to come and help.

In meantime, family freind Norma Denby (Anita Louise) and boyfriend Jack Marsden (Edward Norris) show up at front door. Bela like to mess with them!

Acme detectives finally show up and they even scared of lightning!

After Bela let Garrity, Harrigan and Mulligan in, he start messing with them!

Here is pics from part in soundclip where Kitty get interrogated by Ritz Bros.

Oh yeah, Gorilla hiding in basement!! Is he real, or, is he man dress up like Gorilla? Hmmmm...

Art Miles play Poe, the Gorilla. He also play Gorilla in these flick... MOON OVER LAS VEGAS, CRAZY KNIGHTS and A BIRD IN THE HEAD!

NICE PLACE!!

Part of 'disappearing brother' scene.

'The Stranger,' played by Joseph Calleia, finally pop in to confuse thing even more than already is!

Funny and surreal part is when Bros. go to basement for clues and find a big one, Poe the Gorilla! Poe then manage to demolish the furnace.

Err, uh... there... to the...

What?.. WHAT?!!

For Tabonga, best part of flick is when Garrity open up book and little skeleton pop up, and he scream like little gurl!

Poe the Gorilla save gurl, then, trainer show up and take friendly good guy Poe back to where he belong.

'The Stranger' spill the beans, now everbloody know who bad guy is. Garrity pull gun on Stranger, but, Stranger turn table on him! Then, Bela come out of nowhwere and save the day, err... night! Bela the freaking hero, hell yeah!!!

The Bros. bid one last adieu before vacating premises!

Tabonga always love it when somebloody get creative with artwork!

Then, here is Ritz Bros. from Disney cartoon THE AUTOGRAPH HOUND, 1939!

7 comments:

  1. The furnace in that one shot looks like some kind of giant robot spider!!

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  2. I like this public doman stinker! The Ritz Bros. were always accused of ripping off Danny Kaye, though --

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