Well-represented in the article, William Beaudine was known as Bill "One Shot" Beaudine because, no matter how egregious, he never filmed a second take. Boom mikes dangling, backdrops moving, actors forgetting their lines--it didn't matter to Beaudine. Cut, print, and setup for the next shot!
RETURN OF THE APE MAN: 3rd-billed George Zucco isn't even in it.
Honorable mention should go to THE MONSTER AND THE APE, a 1945 serial with Robert Lowery and George Macready, with lurid posters promising a battle between a robot and a gorilla that they never get round to.
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Not quite definitive: where is the classic KONGA (1961) with Michael Gough?
By coincidence I just mentioned the Petrillo/Lugosi classic on Mystery*File this morning.
Jeff
Wait, where's Paula, The Ape Woman? She appeared in three movies.
Well-represented in the article, William Beaudine was known as Bill "One Shot" Beaudine because, no matter how egregious, he never filmed a second take. Boom mikes dangling, backdrops moving, actors forgetting their lines--it didn't matter to Beaudine. Cut, print, and setup for the next shot!
Not that there's anything wrong with that, Deb. How else could he have finished as many as ELEVEN movies in a single year?
Jeff
Lesseee, what comes to mind here......
RETURN OF THE APE MAN: 3rd-billed George Zucco isn't even in it.
Honorable mention should go to THE MONSTER AND THE APE, a 1945 serial with Robert Lowery and George Macready, with lurid posters promising a battle between a robot and a gorilla that they never get round to.
And of course there's THE MIGHTY GORGA!
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