Episode 541: Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)

Special Guests: Michael Barrie, Gary D. Rhodes
Guest Co-Hosts: Fredde Duke, Richard Whitley, Jamie Klein

We are kicking off Shocktober 2021 with a look at William Beaudine’s Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952) which stars Bela Lugosi (as you may have guessed) as well as comedy duo Sammy Petrillo and Duke Mitchell. They’re a knock-off Martin & Lewis team and they’re found on a little island in the Pacific that is populated by stock footage of African animals.

Rich Whitley, Jamie Klein, and Fredde Duke join Mike to discuss the film as well as Fredde's documentary about her father, producer Maurice Duke, Fuck 'Em. Screenwriter Michael Barrie also stops by as well.

Mike also speaks with writer Gary D. Rhodes about his work including his latest two-volume set, Becoming Dracula: The Early Years of Bela Lugosi.

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Music:
"It's Too Soon to Know" - Duke Mitchell

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Episode 233: The Black Cat (1934)

Special Guests: Noah Isenberg, Edward G. Pettit
Guest Co-Host: Maitland McDonagh

The first big American studio film -- and last big American studio film - directed by Edgar G. Ulmer, The Black Cat is, uh, "inspired" by Edgar Allan Poe’s short story and stars Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in a taut game of life and death.

We talk with Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins and the "Philly Poe Guy", Edward G. Pettit to compare the film with the Poe story. And, we're joined by special guest co-host Maitland McDonagh.

Superstitious? Perhaps... Baloney? Perhaps not.

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Buy The Black Cat on DVD
Buy The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy Edgar G Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins by Noah Isenberg
Read For Criterion Consideration: Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat by Joshua Brunsting
Visit Maitland McDonagh's 120 Days Books website
Buy books by Maitland McDonagh
Follow the Philly Poe Guy on Twitter
Listen to our episode on Ulmer's Detour
Hear more Maitland McDonagh
Hear more Ed Pettit

Music:
"Allegro Moderato" - Franz Schubert
"Andante Con Moto" - Franz Schubert
"The Cat Came Back" - Sonny James

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