Captive Wild Woman1943
“STRANGEST OF SIGHTS... The brain of an animal... the form of a woman!”
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
The premise
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
Horror Vault's take
A brilliant but unhinged scientist pushes glandular research far beyond ethical limits, fixating on the impossible dream of remaking a female gorilla in the image of a human being. Set against the vivid backdrop of a traveling circus, the film weaves big-cat spectacle with sinister laboratory horror. John Carradine brings cold menace to the obsessed doctor as his experiments grow increasingly desperate — and deadly. A product of Universal's classic monster era, it delivers pulpy thrills steeped in the moral anxieties of runaway science.
Content: Animal Imagery And Handling, Surgical Experimentation, Murder, Implied Body Horror
Cast
John Carradine
Dr. Sigmund Walters
Evelyn Ankers
Beth Colman
Milburn Stone
Fred Mason
Lloyd Corrigan
John Whipple
Fay Helm
Nurse Strand
Martha Vickers
Dorothy Colman
Acquanetta
Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman
Vince Barnett
Curly
Paul Fix
Gruen
Fred Aldrich
Roustabout (uncredited)
Clyde Beatty
Fred Mason (in long shots) (archive footage / uncredited)
Turhan Bey
End Narrator (voice)(uncredited)
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