Enjoyably daft US-British co-pro from Herman Cohen which sort of rips of Frankenstein then throws in some King Kong antics at the end. Michael Gough is low key but solid as the mad scientist who returns from Uganda and winds up pumping his monkey full of drugs and said monkey goes on a rampage.
You'd think from the advertising that the most of the movie would center around said rampage but actually that only comes in the last ten minutes; most of this is about Gough being mad, and killing people who are on his scent, and being blackmailed into marriage by his assistant (Margot Johns); there's also this hilarious bit where he gets a crush on a young blonde student (Claire Gordon) whose friends talk in sort of jive (these are introduced way too late in the films), and lots of scenes involving disbelieving cops.
This is the sort of movie that is basically crap but impossible to dislike: you've got Gough acquitting himself very well in a Vincent Price style role, a man in a monkey suit killing people, a quite touching ending with poor old Konga hanging around Big Ben being mowed down by the British army. And it's got novelty factor for being a British monster film. Lots of fun.
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