Murders in the Zoo (1933)

Review: Murders in the Zoo (1933)

Director: A. Edward Sutherland

Cast: Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick, Randolph Scott, John Lodge,

Charles Ruggles
Charles Ruggles
Lionel Atwill
Lionel Atwill
Gail Patrick
Gail Patrick
Randolph Scott
Randolph Scott
John Lodge
John Lodge

Plot: Dr. Gorman is a millionaire adventurer, traveling the world in search of dangerous game. His bored, beautiful, much younger wife entertains herself in the arms of other men. In turn, Gorman uses his animals to kill these men. 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.

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The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

The lasting pleasures of second-tier golden age Universal horror movies

Three two-disk sets from Eureka provide an overview of Universal Studios’ horror movies from the mid-’30s to the early ’50s, in the period when the first wave of early sound horrors petered out and briefly flourished again as […]

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