Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Movie review - Jungle Jim#3 - "Mark of the Gorilla" (1950) **

Johnny Weismuller is a terrible actor in these films - lumbering, awkward, uneasy with dialogue. Was he drunk? Lazy? Did he not care?

Still he is Johnny Weismuller and brings his size, heft and legacy in this Tarzan esque tale. There's an expedition, a mystery, baddies.... who dress up as apes to commit crimes which is wonderful and goofy and stupid and makes this pretty fun to watch. Onslow Stevens gives the support cast some extra heft.

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