Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA barely qualifies as a proper film, although it is a madcap rip-off of a popular comedy series pairing up Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. This one stars the exceptionally irritating Sammy Petrillo (who looks just like Jim Carrey in DUMB AND DUMBER, except this time it's for real) and his buddy Duke Mitchell who travel to a remote Pacific island to live it up with the natives.

The whole film consists of their various encounters with jungle flora and fauna, from dancing native girls to chimpanzees (a welcome cameo from Tarazan's Cheetah) and even a gorilla or two. Inevitably the action is silly and the humour even sillier, although horror fans might be interested to see Bela Lugosi here, as reliable as ever in support as a sinister mad scientist type, forever conducting weird experiments. Lugosi hams it up a treat and is really the only reason to bother sitting through such a dated and otherwise pointless film. It's no surprise director William Beaudine directed around 350 movies when they were of this calibre.