The circus is coming to town.  A town full of troublesome kids, and a doctor
who is shunned by all the citizens of the town.  Well, all the citizens
except one paralyzed girl.  You see Dr. Adrian (Karloff) lost his daughter
to paralysis, and is now determined to cure this girl of her affliction.

So, back at the circus, the ape kills an abusive guard, and the circus is
caught on fire.  In the confusion, the ape escapes.  Dr. Adrian attempts to
save the guard, but discovers that spinal fluid can be used to cure
paralysis (logical assumption, one would guess!).  Anyway, the escaped ape
scrapes with the doc, and meets his end.  The aging doctor then wears the
ape's skin to impersonate the simian and kill the dregs of the town for
their spinal fluid.

A very uneventful film.  No big surprises or even any exciting scenes.
Karloff is good, but the material is laughable.  A clunker that rates down
there with the similarly gorilla-spinal fluid themed film, The Ape-Man.
 
 
 
 

Quality: 2.5  Visuals: 2.5  Intensity: 2.0  Laughability: 3.0 
OVERALL RATING: 2.5