The Monster and the Ape
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Plot
The Monster of the title is the "Metalogen Man", a robot created by Professor Franklin Arnold. After displaying his invention, the robot is stolen by Professor Ernst with the aid of his trained ape, Thor. Ken Morgan leads the attempts to recover the stolen robot.
Cast
- Robert Lowery as Ken Morgan
- George Macready as Prof. Ernst
- Ralph Morgan as Prof. Arnold
- Carole Mathews as Babs Arnold
- Willie Best as Flash, Arnold's assistant
- Jack Ingram as Dick Nordik, henchmen
- Anthony Warde as Joe Flint, henchmen
- Ted Mapes as Joe Butler, henchmen
- Eddie Parker as Blake
- Stanley Price as Mead, henchmen
- Bud Osborne as Zoo's Night Watchman
- Ray Corrigan as Thor, trained ape
Critical reception
The Monster and the Ape was, in the opinion of Cline, "strikingly similar to Republic's serial Mysterious Doctor Satan."[2] However, he describes Professor Ernst as one of "the serial form's...choicest villains."[3]
Chapter titles
- The Mechanical Terror
- The Edge of Doom
- Flames of Fate
- The Fatal Search
- Rocks of Doom
- A Friend in Disguise
- A Scream in the Night
- Death in the Dark
- The Secret Tunnel
- Forty Thousand Volts
- The Mad Professor
- Shadows of Destiny
- The Gorilla at Large
- His Last Flight
- Justice Triumphs
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- 1945 films
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s monster movies
- 1940s science fiction films
- American black-and-white films
- Films about gorillas
- American monster movies
- Columbia Pictures film serials
- Films about apes
- American science fiction films
- 1940s American films
- English-language science fiction films
- Films with screenplays by Sherman Lowe
- American robot films
- English-language science fiction horror films