- HD 1080
- Runtime: 62m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: William Nigh
- Stars: Boris Karloff, Maris Wrixon, Gene O'Donnell, Dorothy Vaughan, Henry Hall
- keywords: circus, gorilla, wheelchair, mad scientist, mad doctor, woman in wheelchair, killer ape
- Production_studio: Monogram Pictures
- Slogan: Jungle Beast or Man of Science?
- providers: Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Epix Amazon Channel, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus, Cultpix, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- The The Ape is featured in the top rankings of 1940
- #13 in Top Horror Movies of 1940
Dr. Bernard Adrian is a kindly scientist who seeks to cure a young woman's polio. He needs human spinal fluid to complete the formula for his experimental serum. Meanwhile, a vicious circus ape has broken out of its cage, and is terrorizing the townspeople. Can there be a connection?