This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It very scary. It is scarier then A Nightmare on elm street and that is not easy to do. It is very funny movie. Not to many movie are scary and funny at same time. 4.9 is underrating this movie. This movie has great acting. I give this movie 8 out of 10. 4.9 is a good ratting but this is better then a 4.9. If you do not scared of this movie then no movie will scary you. Boo! You will get scared. If you do not get scared then no movie will scary. You laugh because it also one of the funniest movie of all time.

When a wealthy man (Lionel Atwill) is threatened by a killer known as the Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive.Although included in public domain horror box sets, and featuring Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill, there really isn't anything horror about this. It is something of a comedy, and something of a mystery. The mystery part isn't all that great, as I think the audience is smarter than the script.The humor is okay. The real mystery is about the Ritz Brothers. Where did they go? 75 years later, we still know the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers, but the Ritz Brothers are barely a fading memory. Is it time for them to get a renaissance? Maybe a box set?

This film would have worked a lot better if they had played it straight and taken out the Ritz Brothers. There's a serial killer called The Gorrila who sends people threatening letters and then kills them within twenty-four hours of sending the message. Some rich insurer's just received such a message, so he's hired the Ritz Brothers to find out what's going on. They all meet at the rich guy's house. Also present is his daughter and her fiancé, butler Bela Legosi, and a maid who's voice could strip paint. There also does seem to be a gorilla present, plus a mysterious man who likes to hide in the secret passageways of the house.I'd read bad reviews of this one, but luckily it's not quite as painful as people make out. The Ritz Brothers, however, are pretty bad, although I've never been a big fan of The Three Stooges either. The actress who plays the maid is even worse, just screaming at the top of her voice until you'll be wanting to shove your feet inside your ears. Or her mouth.Terrible comedy aside, a film with a gorilla in it, set on a stormy night in a house full of secret passages, with Bela Legosi in it as a creepy butler, isn't a total failure. There's plenty of mystery, double crosses, and gorilla action that I couldn't but enjoy it. I just wish they had played it straight.

I have to confess that I had never until today heard of this comedy trio called "The Ritz Brothers." They seem to have been a sort of toned down version of "The Three Stooges," and - not being much of a "Stooges" fan - I actually appreciated their more toned down style of comedy. Here, they play a trio of inept detectives trying to protect a wealthy businessman (Lionel Atwill) who's been threatened by a mass murderer known as "The Gorilla." There is, in fact a "real" gorilla on the loose (played by Art Miles - the makeup, while not great, wasn't as bad as some that I've seen), who can't be the murderer (because first, gorillas can't write notes and, second, he hasn't been on the loose long enough to have committed the murders) but still he provides plenty of comic relief in his scenes with the Ritz Brothers. It's a good mystery. We're kept guessing from the beginning about who's actually committing the murders, and there's no way of really knowing. Bela Lugosi is featured as the butler, Peters, and he plays the role perfectly straight (in a sense perfectly cast, because I can't picture Lugosi doing comedy) and that straight performance adds both to the comedy and the mystery (Peters comes across as mysterious throughout.) Overall, it's not a classic, but it's quite enjoyable. It will offer some laughs and keep you guessing all at the same time. 7/10