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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) -- Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island.

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Writers:
Tim Ryan (writer) &
Leo 'Ukie' Sherin (additional dialogue) ...
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Release Date:
8 October 1952 (USA) more
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A horror film that will stiffen you with laughter! more
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Two goofy entertainers meet a mad scientist on a jungle island. full summary | add synopsis
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Dracula! Jerry Lewis! Monkeys! Who Can Resist? more (42 total)

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Bela Lugosi ... Dr. Zabor
Duke Mitchell ... Duke Mitchell
Sammy Petrillo ... Sammy Petrillo
Charlita ... Nona
Muriel Landers ... Saloma

Al Kikume ... Chief Rakos
Mickey Simpson ... Chula
Milton Newberger ... Bongo, the Witch Doctor
Martin Garralaga ... Pepe Bordo / Waiter
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Also Known As:
Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
The Boys from Brooklyn
The Monster Meets the Gorilla
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74 min
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Filmed in nine days on a budget of $50,000. more
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Duke Mitchell: Don't mind my friend. He has a one-syllable brain. more
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Dracula! Jerry Lewis! Monkeys! Who Can Resist?, 1 July 2005
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Author: hokeybutt from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA (3 outta 5 stars) Okay, this is a lousy movie... but it still entertained the heck out of me. It's so unbelievably bad that you cannot take your eyes away for a second lest you miss something. Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo star as... Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Well, it was probably meant more as a rip-off than an homage... but why quibble? Duke Mitchell is a dreadful singer and he hardly even looks like Dean Martin... they could have dragged anyone in off the street and given him that haircut and they'd have been just as good. Petrillo, on the other hand, is a dead-on ringer for a young, lean Jerry Lewis (whether this is good or bad news depends on your tolerance for Jerry Lewis). Bela Lugosi co-stars as a creepy mad doctor who turns people into gorillas.. or whatever. (Don't expect the story to make any sense.) Really, this movie isn't any worse than a lot of those classic buddy comedy movies of the era. The jokes are corny, the plot is silly and there are totally unnecessary musical and romantic subplots. But. come on, you know you are just DYING to see a movie that mixes together Dracula, Jerry Lewis and monkeys!

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