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...only real trouble with Doctor, in fact, is that the fun is almost too fast and furious. One minute somebody is dippy on ether fumes, the next he is nursing a stuffed gorilla in an ambulance; and before the audience can say cholecystelectrocoagulectomy, a flowerpot shatters on the dean's skull, and the hero crashes through a skylight into bed with-that's right-the head nurse herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 7, 1955 | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

...modernistic looking one. But--"Than a peacock I'd be prouder, If you'd shout I love you louder." One more try, Vag resolved. If I don't find something now, hell with it. He opened "This valentine is guaranteed. . " and then groaned slightly when a pop-out gorilla leered at him with the inscription, ". . . to scare the YELL out of you." I guess I'm just too old to appreciate these things any more, Vag mumbled as he hunched under his tweed overcoat, and strode with determined sophistication out the door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roses Are Red. . . | 2/10/1954 | See Source »

...Gorilla at Large (20th Century-Fox, 3-D and flattie) escapes from an amusement park, says Producer Leonard Goldstein, "and winds up in a mirror maze . . . So you have about twelve gorillas popping out in 3-D from the mirror. We also hide him in a diving bell, and he submerges, and he gets on a roller coaster . . . That's the only thing 3-D is good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bloodstream Green | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Stanton, at that time, Lincoln was "that long-armed baboon . . . that giraffe." Even after the Civil War had begun, he told the delighted General McClellan that Lincoln was the "original gorilla." But when Lincoln named him to the Cabinet, Stanton became a dynamic Secretary to the man he had once despised. He drove his subordinates mercilessly, but never so hard as he drove himself. Says Author Pratt: "He could tear up a contract and fling the pieces in the contractor's face; he could pass a white-haired father through to the bedside of his wounded son . . . He could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Union Man | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...remain gracious, composed and well-groomed as she triumphs over all obstacles to bring hygiene to the jungle. Robert Mitchum plays an intrepid hunter who gives her a helping hand, but the best acting in the film is done by an actor named Charles Gemora, who plays a gorilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

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