The excellent Lionel Atwill and Bela Lugosi are wasted in this old fashioned (even for 1939) horror comedy made as a vehicle for the excrutiating Ritz Brothers comedy team, a poor and annoying Three Stooges copying team. Atwill is always good and plays his role straight as a man told he will die at the hands of the infamous gorilla murderer. Lugosi has fun as a red-herring waiter. Eventually after lots of secret panels and hands reaching around doors, the gorilla appears and the film reaches it's straight forward, unexciting conclusion. In comparison to THE CAT AND THE CANARY made by Bob Hope the same year, this looks very bad and indeed it is extremely hard to sit through with only the promise of Lugosi or Atwill raising their eyebrows once more making it almost endurable. 4/10.
Special Thanks to Mark Coyle for this Movie Review.