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Beast Of Borneo, The
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Convinced that the glands of the orangutan secrete a substance that wilI inhibit human aging, Dr. Boris Borodoff travels to Africa to capture a specimen. He enlists famed big-game hunter Bob Ward, who at first refuses, but then succumbs to the charms of the doctor's beautiful assistant, AIma. EventuaIly the trapper catches one of the elusive creatures. Bob has been promised that the primate wilI be unharmed, but Borodoff immediately prepares for surgery. A fight ensues in which Bob is carried off deep into the jungIe by the huge orangutan. Alma finally realizes that her empIoyer has gone compIetely insane, and rushes off in a desperate attempt to rescue Bob.
Beginning in 1920 with The Forbidden Woman, ultra Iow-budget producer Harry Garson directed a string of expIoitation features which would culminate with 1933's The Beast Of Borneo. Many of these sexuaIly provocative features starred actress Clara Kimball Young, including What No Man Knows (1921) and The WorldIy Madonna (1922). Speculation has it that following Karloff's rise to stardom in Frankenstein (1931), "Boris" became the "go-to" name for screen vilIains as in Beast of Borneo's Boris Borodoff. |
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