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Murders in the Zoo is a 1933 pre-Code horror film directed by A. Edward Sutherland, written by Philip Wylie and Seton I. Miller. Particularly dark, even for its time, film critic Leonard Maltin called the film "astonishingly grisly."
Murders in the Zoo: Directed by A. Edward Sutherland. With Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick, Randolph Scott. A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.
MURDERS IN THE ZOO is an odd little film, a mixture of horror, comedy, and mystery, with the occasional thrill. Lionel Atwill is his usual evil self, and Randolph Scott's career was just taking off. Kathleen Burke as Atwill's wife is good, and she has eyes that Hollywood loved.
Dr. Gorman (Lionel Atwill) is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife (Kathleen Burke) entertains herself in...
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Jerry nurses Jack back to health, and the drunken Yates loses his fear of the big cats. (1933), starring Lionel Atwill, Charlie Ruggles, Kathleen Burke, and John Lodge. Window Cards were 14x22 mini posters designed to be placed in store windows around town during a film's engagement.
When things escalate to murder, it falls on zoo scientist Dr. Jack Woodford (Randolph Scott) to try and solve the murders that have already happened and bring Gorman's murder spree to a stop before he can claim any more victims.
When a New York City zoo suggests a fundraising gala, Gorman sees a prime opportunity to dispatch the dashing Roger and anyone else who might cross him. Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game.
Eric Gorman returns with his wife Evelyn from a trip to the Orient collecting zoo animals, having killed a member of his expedition who happened one day to kiss Mrs. Gorman. On board ship Evelyn meets Roger Hewitt, who falls in love with her.
Murders in the Zoo is a 1933 pre-Code horror film directed by A. Edward Sutherland, written by Philip Wylie and Seton I. Miller. Particularly dark, even for its time, film critic Leonard Maltin called the film "astonishingly grisly."
Despite the drunken comedy relief of Charlie Ruggles, Murders in the Zoo is a genuine spine-tingler, from its first scene--in which Atwill sews a man's lips shut and leaves him to be devoured by jungle wildlife--to the last.
