Anne Bancroft, Lee J. cobb, Raymond Burr, Cameron Mitchell. Quite a cast, but in my opinion wasted in this indifferent detective film and scenes of mild horror. The copy I saw of it was terrible colour and despite the fact the film that no visual merit and indifferent direction I can see why some people are fond of it. I would have thought that gorillas were out of fashion as ' horror ' creatures by 1954, but obviously a 3-D take on it seemed necessary. ' Phantom of the Rue Morgue ' dating from the same period was much, much better. The cast did not try to have to act in that film, and the gorilla question was left until the end.
Another point the IMDB need to know that in the UK the film was originally given an X certificate and not an A. This can be confirmed in the picture gallery of posters and Picturegoer of July 24 1954 shows its X classification twice in its review. These details for film researchers are necessary, and the BBFC has fallen into a misleading certificate as well. No doubt it was given a lesser certificate later, but the original showings in the UK had an X for Adults only.
I give it a 5 for the actors who did much better work elsewhere for being the main attraction and Lee J. Cobb, for me the best of them all gives a performance that really excels with trite dialogue.
Review of Gorilla at Large
