****SPOILERS**** The movie "Gorilla at Large" is actually about three not one gorilla all played by human not primate actors. There's of course the gorilla in the movies title Goliath the biggest gorilla in captivity played by George Barrows in a loose fitting monkey suite. Then there's circus manager Cyrus Miller played by the gorilla like, before he lost 100 pounds for his role as Perry Mason Esq, Raymond Burr who in fact played a gorilla three years earlier in he movie "Bride of the Gorilla". And then there's Goliath's trainer and poker & gin playing partner, when he's not entertaining the audience, Kovacs played by unshaven and grizzled looking six foot three 275 pound Peter Whitney. As things turn out a number of people working for the circus end up with the necks broken by someone with enormous strength that only a gorilla, not human, could have. With Goliath the very obviously #1 suspect in these murders he's kept in his cage under around the clock observation by Det. Sgt. Garrison, Lee J. Cobb, to see if, by breaking out of his cage and killing someone, he's in fact the killer.
With that going on full-time circus handy man and part time law student Joey Matthews, played by a bleach blond looking Cameron Mitchell, takes it upon himself to single handedly solve the murders in order to show up the police headed by Det. Sgt. Garrisoin and his partner Mister Mack, Warren Stevens. This has Joey uncontrollably fall for sexy trapeze artist Leverne Miller, Ann Bancroft, who's married to her boss Cyrus the manager of the circus as well as have been married to the other gorilla Kovacs whom she left for her trapeze partner the handsome Kewpie known as the human cannonball. That's until Kewpie died in a tragic accident when the swing he was doing his act with Laverne snapped causing to fall to his death.
****SPOILERS**** It turns out that everyone including Goliath are falling all over Laverne with Cyrus who was totally innocent in Kewpie death confessing, like in those Raymond Burr dealt with in the Perry Mason series, to his murder! As it turned out Cyrus was covering up something that only he as well as the ape-like Kovacs knew about. Even if it meant for him being strapped into the state electric chair. As for Kovacs he wasn't so understanding and was more then willing to see justice is done in the case of the person who committed the latest murders and let the chips fall where they may. As for poor Goliath the innocent victim in all this he paid with his life for a crime or crimes that he didn't commit where at the end of the movie no one at all, but possibly his trainer Kovac, felt a bit sorry for!
P.S Check out a young 30 year old Lee Marvin as the "Sleeping Policeman" Officer Shaughnessy who as luck would have it and without realizing it actually proved the very maligned gorilla Goliath totally innocent! That by him spending the night, by falling asleep drunk, in Goliath's cage without him getting his neck wrung!
With that going on full-time circus handy man and part time law student Joey Matthews, played by a bleach blond looking Cameron Mitchell, takes it upon himself to single handedly solve the murders in order to show up the police headed by Det. Sgt. Garrisoin and his partner Mister Mack, Warren Stevens. This has Joey uncontrollably fall for sexy trapeze artist Leverne Miller, Ann Bancroft, who's married to her boss Cyrus the manager of the circus as well as have been married to the other gorilla Kovacs whom she left for her trapeze partner the handsome Kewpie known as the human cannonball. That's until Kewpie died in a tragic accident when the swing he was doing his act with Laverne snapped causing to fall to his death.
****SPOILERS**** It turns out that everyone including Goliath are falling all over Laverne with Cyrus who was totally innocent in Kewpie death confessing, like in those Raymond Burr dealt with in the Perry Mason series, to his murder! As it turned out Cyrus was covering up something that only he as well as the ape-like Kovacs knew about. Even if it meant for him being strapped into the state electric chair. As for Kovacs he wasn't so understanding and was more then willing to see justice is done in the case of the person who committed the latest murders and let the chips fall where they may. As for poor Goliath the innocent victim in all this he paid with his life for a crime or crimes that he didn't commit where at the end of the movie no one at all, but possibly his trainer Kovac, felt a bit sorry for!
P.S Check out a young 30 year old Lee Marvin as the "Sleeping Policeman" Officer Shaughnessy who as luck would have it and without realizing it actually proved the very maligned gorilla Goliath totally innocent! That by him spending the night, by falling asleep drunk, in Goliath's cage without him getting his neck wrung!