Captive Wild Woman
STRANGEST OF SIGHTS... The brain of an animal... the form of a woman!
HorrorScience Fictionmonstercircustigergorillaliontransformationmad scientistmurderbetrayalscientistalcoholicsurgery
A lurid 1940s creature-feature built on mad-scientist transgression and body-horror transformation, where scientific obsession leads to murder and monstrosity.
An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.
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John Carradine
Dr. Sigmund Walters
Evelyn Ankers
Beth Colman
Milburn Stone
Fred Mason
Lloyd Corrigan
John Whipple
Fay Helm
Nurse Strand
Martha Vickers
Dorothy Colman
Acquanetta
Paula Dupree, the Ape Woman
Vince Barnett
Curly
Paul Fix
Gruen
Fred Aldrich
Roustabout (uncredited)
Clyde Beatty
Fred Mason (in long shots) (archive footage / uncredited)
Turhan Bey
End Narrator (voice)(uncredited)
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