In The Bride and the Beast (1958), a young woman — well-adjusted except for perhaps an over-strong attachment to angora — discovers a certain spark with the gorilla that her new husband, a big game hunter, keeps in the basement. The gorilla feels the same way, leading to an unconventional wedding night. Throw in hypnosis, reincarnation, and a helluva lot of stock footage, and you just have to ask: “Did Ed Wood write this?”
Yes. Yes, he did.
#1 by lyzard on December 10, 2008 - 10:30 pm
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“Climactic scene”? Really, under the circumstances you’re going to have to be more specific than that.
#2 by Dave Causey on December 11, 2008 - 12:34 am
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Nathan,after looking at the “bonus screencap”,I don’t think it’s just your imagination.
#3 by MatthewF on December 11, 2008 - 4:19 am
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So it’s either King Kong taken to it’s logical extreme, or it’s tarzan played backwards.
#4 by Blake Matthews on December 11, 2008 - 5:53 am
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“…they’re asleep in twin beds. (The most horrifying image in this movie by my scorecard.) ”
My friend’s parents slept in twin beds in their old house. I couldn’t figure out why. Maybe they were burned out after seven children. Scared me, though.
#5 by Nathan Shumate on December 11, 2008 - 6:41 am
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Lyz,
Yeah, I thought that would spark someone’s attention. The gorilla comes into camp and takes Laura (still suffering from a concussion, but even then extraordinarily compliant) away to a cave, from which Dan is unable to rescue her. So he goes back to the U.S.
#6 by lyzard on December 11, 2008 - 2:25 pm
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Tee, hee! Actually, I knew that: this is one of the films that my brother and I saw double-billed with Robot Monster all those years ago. (Between the tigers in Africa and George Barrows in Bronson Canyon, I was in surrealist heaven.) When we got that last scene, with Laura and the gorilla, and Dan just shrugging and going home, the whole audience just roared…and my brother pipes up, “Hey, a happy ending!”
#7 by Nathan Shumate on December 11, 2008 - 2:43 pm
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My lord, that’s a double feature which could sunder the very boundaries of space-time.