Film
The Ape
United States- Age rating
- NR
- Director
- William Nigh
- Year
- 1940
Jungle Beast or Man of Science?
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?
Top cast
Boris Karloff
Dr. Bernard Adrian
Maris Wrixon
Frances Clifford
Gene O'Donnell
Danny Foster
Dorothy Vaughan
Mother Clifford
Henry Hall
Sheriff Jeff Halliday
Selmer Jackson
Dr. McNulty
Gertrude Hoffmann
Jane the Housekeeper
Jessie Arnold
Mrs. Brill
Billy Bletcher
Short Mustached Posse Man
Harry C. Bradley
Quinn
George Cleveland
Mr. Howley
Ray Corrigan
Nabu
Pauline Drake
Young Girl
Mary Field
Mrs. Mason
Gibson Gowland
Posse Member
Julia Griffith
Townswoman
I. Stanford Jolley
Ape Trainer
Stan Jolley
Boy in Soda Shop
Directed by
William Nigh
Written by
Richard Carroll, Curt Siodmak
