{"product_id":"scripts-from-the-crypt-bride-of-the-gorilla-hardback","title":"SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT: BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (hardback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cstyle\u003e\n\u003c!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"ＭＳ 明朝\";\n\tmso-font-charset:78;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:1 0 16778247 0 131072 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:\"ＭＳ 明朝\";\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;\n\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n--\u003e\n\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eOn a South American rubber plantation stands the home of\r\nKlaas Van Gelder—a house whose claim to fame is murder. Barney the foreman,\r\nbeguiled by Van Gelder’s beautiful young wife Dina, pushed his employer into\r\nthe afterlife, took Dina as his bride and made himself master of Van Gelder\r\nManor. But a witch-like servant\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"\u003e \r\n\u003c\/span\u003egives him a dose of jungle justice: She places a curse on him so that he\r\ntransforms by night into the deadliest of jungle demons, \u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:\nnormal\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003ethe succarath.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCurt Siodmak, creator of \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003eThe\r\nWolf Man\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003eDonovan’s Brain\u003c\/i\u003e,\r\ndevised this outlandish monster melodrama, basically an exotic remake of \u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style:normal\"\u003eThe Wolf Man\u003c\/i\u003e, co-starring the Wolf Man\r\nhimself, Lon Chaney. The Fabulous Fifties’ first horror hit, it rates deluxe \u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\"\u003eScripts from the Crypt\u003c\/b\u003e treatment: a\r\n“Making Of” article, a tribute to Siodmak, detailed release information, an\r\nessay on the music score, an interview with producer Herman Cohen, a Lon Chaney\r\nTimeline, Production Code correspondence, script, pressbook and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cstyle\u003e\u003c!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Cambria;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:auto;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-parent:\"\";\n\tmargin:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:.0001pt;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:12.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Cambria;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}\na:link, span.MsoHyperlink\n\t{color:blue;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\na:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed\n\t{mso-style-noshow:yes;\n\tcolor:purple;\n\ttext-decoration:underline;\n\ttext-underline:single;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;\n\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'\u003eFrom John\r\nMcElwee’s Greenbriar Picture Shows\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'\u003ehttp:\/\/greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.com\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'\u003eThis third entry in Tom Weaver's \"Scripts From The Crypt\" series\r\n(previous two being The Hideous Sun Demon and The Indestructible Man), delves\r\ndeep into 1951's Bride Of The Gorilla, a Realart jungle horror you'd not dream\r\nwould inspire a book, let alone one so irresistible as what genre historian\r\nWeaver turns master hand to. He's gathered a blue ribbon panel of experts to\r\nflavor behind-scenes telling of a misbegot chiller sold variously as Shocking,\r\nDaring, Primitive, and Passionate (to each please add exclamation points, as\r\ndoes ad at left). Any chapter of this book would merit purchase price, and\r\nthere are over a dozen of them. I attended weekend-long wedding festivities to\r\naccompany of GF Ann plus Bride Of The Gorilla, the book enjoyed during hotel\r\nbar sequesters fueled by whiskey sours and passages shared with Ann (her intro\r\nto sordid details of the Barbara Payton-Franchot Tone-Tom Neal dustup). Fellow\r\ntipplers noting the book's lurid cover and my rapt absorption (w\/frequent\r\nrecites) must have wondered what group home I had escaped from.\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character:line-break\"\u003e\r\n\u003cbr style=\"mso-special-character:line-break\"\u003e\r\n\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family:\"Times New Roman\"'\u003eHere are B Of\r\nThe G highlights and reasons GPS readership will savor this book: 1 --- an\r\nintro by John Landis, ace director and lifelong chill enthusiast ... 2 ---\r\nInterviews as only Tom Weaver can conduct them, w\/ eye-witness accounts of the\r\nfilm's production, as well as Weaver's close analysis re the latter, his\r\nhistory of Realart, producing Broder brothers, appreciation of Herman Cohen\r\n(getting his start here), and 3 --- dissect of once-in-a-lifetime cast Barbara\r\nPayton, Lon Chaney, Raymond Burr, Tom Conway, plus gorilla suitors and\r\npulse-quickening F. Tone v. T. Neal. To this add Scott MacQueen's years-later\r\nvisit with Bride director Curt Siodmak, covered in fascinating detail (with\r\nphotos). There's \"Fun Facts\" from Weaver throughout, he and Greg Mank\r\ntopping themselves with a \"Lon Chaney Jr. Timeline\" that left me\r\nagape over reams of revelation (and me thinking all this time that I knew my\r\nChaney). If you care at all about horror legends, backstage peeps, underbelly\r\nprobe, interviewee candor served raw (Weaver sure knows how to peel back scabs\r\nof memory), all making pages turn sans pause (you'll curse meals and sleep for\r\ntime they take from this).  Weaver's Scripts\/Crypt series is a winning\r\nconcept, with each setting a new bar. I'm panting already for the author's\r\nnext.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nFrom dvdtalk.com:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nI have a book review today. It's Tom Weaver's Scripts from the Crypt: Bride of\r\nthe Gorilla, the third volume in the \"Tom Weaver presents\" collection\r\nafter The Hideous Sun Demon and The Indestructible Man. None of these movies\r\nmade Sight \u0026amp; Sound's top 100 list, but that's not the point. Weaver and Co.\r\nhave been proving for going on forty years now that readers have an insatiable\r\nappetite for this stratum of film production.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nBride of the Gorilla is not the autobio of Jane Goodall, that's Gorillas that I\r\nMiss. It's a misbegotten but fascinating 1951 jungle picture starring Lon\r\nChaney, Raymond Burr and the notorious Barbara Payton. This collector's book\r\nembellishes a full reprint of writer-director Curt Siodmak's original shooting\r\nscript with everything relevant to the subject Tom Weaver can get his hands on,\r\nstarting with a funny but thoughtful John Landis intro about the appeal of\r\nGorilla-suit movies.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nAs one would expect with Weaver, the production history and star bio\r\nbackgrounds are all annotated with hard sources. When you quote this book for\r\nyour Master's Thesis, \"Simian Semiology in the Semi-Tropics,\" you can\r\nrest assured the research is solid. Weaver even critiques the sources of some\r\nof the info! You will know everything humanly possible about the company that\r\nfilmed and distributed Bride of the Gorilla. This picture played everywhere,\r\nand likely made Jack Broder rich.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWeaver brings out every strange detail in a script that appears to have been\r\nwritten with spare parts left over from Curt Siodmak's The Wolf Man. The\r\nprominent sidebar investigation delves into the various legends floating around\r\nthe film's actors. Raymond Burr handled the problem of his sexual identity vs.\r\nhis public life extremely well, it would seem. Much of the text looks for facts\r\nand opinions about Lon Chaney at this time in his career; the overall verdict\r\nfor Lon is pretty positive. But star Barbara Payton's life was overshadowed by\r\nseamy scandal from this point forward. Weaver digs up every career-killing\r\narrest notice and mocking trade paper column. Telling Payton's story also gets\r\nus into the lives of big star Franchot Tone and not-so-famous actor Tom Neal,\r\nwho deep-sixed his Hollywood future with a combo of booze, fisticuffs and\r\nBarbara. I was initially put off with the cruel attitude Weaver takes toward\r\nPayton, but even the few kind words said about her by others aren't very\r\nforgiving. A sexual predator and a serious bad news blonde, Payton suffered\r\nperhaps the worst downfall of any actress that performed in big movies with big\r\nstars. This all-factual account doesn't pull any punches.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIn addition to David Schecter's essay on composer Raoul Kraushaar (from which I\r\nlearned interesting facts about the score to Invaders from Mars), writers Greg\r\nMank, Scott MacQueen, Dr. Robert J. Kiss and Frank J. Dello Stritto offer\r\nanalyses of the film and reminiscences of the actors and director Siodmak.\r\nWeaver interviews Tom Neal Jr., actor William Phipps and production assistant\r\nHerman Cohen, whose duties included minding producer Broder's children. Weaver\r\nhas once again located every known fact about a movie that has suddenly become\r\na lot more interesting -- I'll have to pull out the old DVD now. Holding this\r\nbig yellow book (the softcover edition), I'm thinking it's the perfect thing to\r\nset out on the coffee table when relatives come over. They'll know better than\r\nto make small talk with me, by golly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cspan style='font-family: \"Times New Roman\";'\u003e\"Ditto for Script from the Crypt No. 3: Bride of the Gorilla, which focuses equally obsessively on Curt Siodmak's 1951 exercise in cross-species romance, likewise featuring Lon Chaney, along with a pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr and tragically doomed starlet Barbara Payton. Among the book's profuse contents are Siodmak's complete script, an Introduction by Bride fan John Landis, Scott MacQueen's article \"Siodmak's Brain\"—a fascinating portrait of the filmmaker as a semi-embittered nonagenarian living in the woods with his loyal wife and a cat named Caruso—interviews with producer Herman Cohen and actors William Phipps and Tom Neal Jr., a Bride of the Gorilla pressbook and much more. Like Indestructible Man, Bride of the Gorilla contains exhibition historian Robert J. Kiss's complete list of the film's playdates, what features it was teamed up with, and where. The most inspired pairing? 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