I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Great Film overall

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Written by Tim Ryan and directed by Beaudine, this is a charmless old-fashioned lowbrow comedy, where a princess who went to college gives a necklace to a lousy singer; but for the two cretins (Petrillo slightly less annoying than the singer), the movie might of worked better, but not much better, as there's not much to laugh or at least smile at, with the main idea being not to rip off, but to spoof a rising duo, implying those were a couple of monkeys, the kind of 5th rate comedy which belonged to the lousiest TV slot; instead, remember Tim Ryan, Lugosi and Beaudine for their better work elsewhere. As it is, it offers an occasion to remember and think about Tim Ryan, a B comedies scriptwriter, about Lugosi, who resembles Plummer, about Beaudine, who has done so many movies ….Lugosi gets the opportunity to explain the growth force in the evolutionary differentiation; his aim is to kick beings into evolving or devolving. He's an insane scientist (here, a biologist) who owns a castle on the island and loves the princess. He looked like Plummer, and has a nice scene when, at his castle, he sits, in the evening, drinking to quench his jealousy; perhaps surprisingly, in this comedy Lugosi takes a more chilly approach (in fact, the script offers him but one moment of raving, that of the scientific explanation of pushing evolution upstairs or downstairs), he seems more earthly. (Otherwise, Karloff, Chaney, Lee have been themselves in movies this dire.) A certain Charlita plays the princess, and she was better than her pair, the cretin entertainer, on screen.The featured duo was disgraceful and trite (with the joke being that they are the ascending comedians' monkeys, but also that, in the original duo, the 1st was a gorilla, and the 2nd a chimpanzee, which is unfair to those actors).

It is hard not to like this amusing little comedy chiller. Lugosi is in great form, given his age and health problems. There are some humorous exchanges of dialogue, in particular when Bela is explaining the finer points of his evolution experimentation to the Martin and Lewis wannabees Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo. The boys clown around a bit with very weak material, their jokes really only likely to amuse any kids in the audience. Ramona is one very talented chimpanzee and turns in a good performance larking about with Petrillo. I saw this film on the lower half of a double feature in a London suburban flea-pit around 1959. Released over here by New Realm Pictures Ltd. and re-titled " Monster meets the Gorilla ". The film benefits from the casting of the very pretty actress Charlita, and this was probably her finest hour, being that she is on screen in most of the scenes, where she is given plenty of dialogue and an opportunity to display her natural charms. Her other film credits were mostly fleeting cameos, or dance interludes. She often played waitresses, and she appeared in a few TV series entries.

No movie seems too awful for someone to claim SoBIG status for it. I suppose we must each draw our own lines in our own way. I think I must draw one here. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla has all the ingredients for a fun D-grade movie – bad script, bad sets, bad acting, a gorilla, etc. However, it is so devoid of any spark of creativity that it offended even my meager aesthetic sense. In the pantheon of soft drinks, if such an erection were ever raised, this film would be decaffeinated, vanilla, diet Crown Cola: a cheap, shameless, tasteless rip-off. It plagiarizes the "Abbott and Costello Meet..." movies and those by that other comedy duo (Lewis and Clark, was it?), and just about anything else it can exploit.I only watched Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla because it had that Dracula guy in it. I forget his name. But the waning Count is only dribbled out for his notoriety and is completely wasted here (although having the seventy-year old Bela pawing Nona, the island maiden, does produce the only moment in the movie that is creepy...but not in the spooky way). Even given all of this, I may have let BLmaBG slide with three stars -- well, it does have Bela Lugosi AND a gorilla, two actually, and a chimp -- until the ending pushed it under the bottom: They couldn't be bothered to come up with one! I hope none of this is off putting. I'm sure many people will find this movie SoBig, maybe flat out 'ig,' and de gustibus non est disputandum.

It's easy enough to take pot-shots at a movie like this, especially if you try stacking it up against other stuff. It's a long way from the best or worst I've ever seen. Of course, Bela Lugosi can do no wrong. Just watching him laugh, or hearing the line, "What an unusual cranium." makes the movie worth a look. Obviously, Petrillo did an excellent take on Jerry Lewis, and his repetition of Lugosi's line about the "unusual cranium" was my biggest laugh in the movie. Duke Mitchell's task of imitating Dean Martin has taken a lot of hits, but it had to be harder to do Martin without going "over the top" than it was to do Lewis, where going "over the top" was exactly what was called for. Personally, I could care less whether I was listening to Martin or Mitchell sing, but that brings up another point. For decades Hollywood mindlessly insisted that movies include musical numbers and romantic sub-plots that nobody could possibly care less about, as anybody who's ever watched a Marx Brothers movie can relate to. OK, it's not great, but it's fun.