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Murders in the Zoo is a american film of genre Horror directed by A. Edward Sutherland released in USA on 31 march 1933 with Charles Ruggles

Murders in the Zoo (1933)

Murders in the Zoo
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Released in USA 31 march 1933
Length 1h2
OriginUSA
Genres Horror,    Crime
Rating63% 3.1928553.1928553.1928553.1928553.192855

Murders in the Zoo is 1933 Pre-Code horror film directed by A. Edward Sutherland, written by Philip Wylie and Seton I. Miller. Considered particularly dark for its time, film critic Leonard Maltin has called the film "Astonishingly grisly".

Synopsis

Big-game hunter and wealthy zoologist Eric Gorman (Lionel Atwill) is an insanely jealous husband who uses his animal knowledge to dispose of his impulsive wife’s lovers. The film opens in an Indian jungle with Gorman using a needle and thread to sew a colleague’s mouth closed after having discovered that he had kissed his wife, and then he seals the man’s fate by abandoning him in the jungle with the wild beasts. Gorman later pretends to be surprised at hearing that the man had been eaten by tigers. Both Gorman and his wife Evelyn (Kathleen Burke) then return to America aboard a ship packed with captured animals he intends to add to his collection at a major zoo. On the ship, Evelyn starts to develop promiscuous relations with Roger Hewitt (John Lodge), which she makes little effort to hide from her husband. Naturally, the murderously jealous Gorman takes notice. So once back in the States, he begins to plot a way to get rid of Hewitt.

Actors

Charles Ruggles

(Peter Yates)Lionel Atwill

(Eric Gorman)Gail Patrick

(Jerry Evans)Randolph Scott

(Jack Woodford)John Lodge

(Roger Hewitt)
And :
Kathleen Burke
Harry Beresford
Jane Darwell
Samuel S. Hinds
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