Bride of the Gorilla, by Tom Weaver
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Bride of the Gorilla, by Tom Weaver
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On a South American rubber plantation stands the home of Klaas Van Gelder—a house whose claim to fame is murder. Barney the foreman, beguiled by Van Gelder’s beautiful young wife Dina, pushed his employer into the afterlife, took Dina as his bride and made himself master of Van Gelder Manor. But a witch-like servant gives him a dose of jungle justice: She places a curse on him so that he transforms by night into the deadliest of jungle demons, the succarath. Curt Siodmak, creator of The Wolf Man and Donovan’s Brain, devised this outlandish monster melodrama, basically an exotic remake of The Wolf Man, co-starring the Wolf Man himself, Lon Chaney. The Fabulous Fifties’ first horror hit, it rates deluxe Scripts from the Crypt treatment: a “Making Of” article, a tribute to Siodmak, detailed release information, an essay on the music score, an interview with producer Herman Cohen, a Lon Chaney Timeline, Production Code correspondence, script, pressbook and more.
Bride of the Gorilla, by Tom Weaver- Amazon Sales Rank: #1769305 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .54" w x 8.50" l, 1.24 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 236 pages
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. And I tend to love this stuff By Frederic B. Martin I think the author finally ran out of clever ways to call Barbara Payton a whore by the last chapter. A very entertaining read by a gifted researcher and talented writer, but a tad too snarky and mean-spirited. I suppose it's to be commended that Mr. Weaver doesn't take himself nor his topic of choice too seriously, but eventually the sarcasm and condescension get a bit old. That said, the book is a veritable gold mine of background information on a film that, when I finally saw it about five years ago, was so un-entertaining it actually made me angry. And I tend to love this stuff. Reading this book is a far more entertaining experience than sitting through the film itself. As opposed to the treatment Ms. Payton gets, Lon Chaney is treated honestly AND respectfully which is very nice indeed, with solid contribution from Greg Mank and Scott MacQueen. (Not sure I care what John Landis has to say on the subject but there he is, rolled out again as he often is, this time into the role of long-winded Introduction writer.) But yes, I'm going to buy the others in this series.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. No movie is too obscure By Chris Flick This was a very engaging read. I got hold of a copy of the movie to watch first and that doubled the enjoyment of the book. I have read other titles by Tom Weaver and enjoyed them, while learning a lot about the lower (some might say) tier of filmmaking. This is filled with documentation to give context to the period and the performers. Bride of the Gorilla was the first movie I had seen with Miss Payton, who it must be said comes in for a bit of a shellacking. I found her rather compelling to watch; as I did the entire cast of B-listers. The book is fun, the movie is fun. I look forward to reading the other titles in this series, once I have caught up on the films.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Fact-laden book with a great story to be told and a lot of funny stuff too! By Mark Martucci I own every book Weaver has written. He's got a style that shows he obviously enjoys these films but he also is able to delight in the goofiness of some of them as well. You also get all the facts backed up with footnoted sources along with all the fun.And this book is without a doubt the FUNNIEST of all his books.As I was reading I found myself chuckling and then laughing out loud at some of the crazy and ridiculous antics that went on during the production and release of the film. There are some lines in here that are worth memorizing and will get you laughs anywhere you go.You don't write a book about a film called BRIDE OF THE GORILLA as a film scholar or some egg headed professor at UCLA would. Film history can be fun as it is here.The story of Realart Pictures and Jack Broder Productions is really quite important in the chronology of the beloved Universal horror classics. This book gives us the missing piece as to what happened to our favorite monsters in the years after production stopped in January of 1946 up to when they hit their greatest popularity in the Shock Theater packages on TV in the late '50s. It turns out that Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy and The Wolf Man were all very much alive and in action during those dark non-horror years.It's a fascinating story that has never been told with this much detail. Tom tells it here with a wink and a huge infectious sense of humor.To the sourpuss amateur psychiatrist (who seems to me to have a screw or two loose) posting here about how Weaver hates women, I would say that there seems to be some kind of unfounded wrong headed personal attack going on here.I am.. SHOCKED...Shocked, I say! ..with Amazon's allowing that kind of stuff stand. Why would someone as thin skinned and PC corrupt as this poster tries to make out he/she is pick up and read a book about a film with a title that suggests marriage between woman and beast? And then post in an attempt to bring down the star rating for this book? Would it be possible that this person has some kind of grudge against the author?That Barbara Payton was what she was is beyond doubt. There is no way of sugar coating her behavior and still keep the integrity of the truth intact.The fact that Tom chooses to drop the PC nonsense and call a spade a spade is quite refreshing in the fake political atmosphere that is choking us today. More power to him. It's nice to have at least one guy who is still able to say what most of us are thinking without having to add “not that there's anything wrong with that” after we say it. Very cool!Oh yes, about half of this book is a reprinted film script of possibly the first draft of the screenplay. There's lots of strange differences between it and the finished film.Note: I went into reading this book figuring that Weaver would answer the question of the ages: What the heck happens at the end of this film??Well, even the great sage Mr. Weaver doesn't know. I say The Succarath (as played with expressive aplomb by Steve Calvert) has killed the Payton character and she's already dead when it climbs the tree and get's plugged. This is not a spoiler because you can't spoil a film that has a denouement that no two film nuts can agree with.The author does make it clear once and for all as to whether Barney (played less expressively by Raymond Burr) physically changes into a succarath or not. He's even got photographic proof in the book. And only our author would have the beans to confront this positive proof of this huge inconsistency to the face of the cantankerous director of this film.I will not spoil that for anyone. Buy this thing and find out.
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