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Murders in the Zoo

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Murders in the Zoo
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1hr 6min
Genres:
Drama,Horror,Action
Release:
1933
Director:
Edward Sutherland
Starring:
Charlie Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick  ...more
Synopsis: Insanely jealous of his wife, wealthy zoologist Lionel Atwill uses his knowledge of animals to dispose of any would-be rivals. Atwill brings his latest collection of wild animals to a major metropolitan zoo. Here he continues his homicidal ways, dispatching his wife's lover (John Lodge) with the severed head of a poisonous snake. When his wife (Kathleen Burke) gathers up enough evidence to go to the police, Atwill unceremoniously dumps her in the zoo's alligator pit. A young animal specialist (Randolph ... Full Synopsis
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Robert Firsching, AMG Review
One of the better low-budget horror films of the 1930s, Murders in the Zoo holds up better than many of its contemporaries, and it offers a great chance to catch Lionel Atwill at the peak of his villainy, playing a nasty animal trapper who is definitely the jealous type. He sews a guy's lips shut in the jungle, then comes back to an American zoo and starts injecting mamba poison into his wife's suitors ... Full Review
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Charlie Ruggles
Peter Yates, Zoo Press Agent
Lionel Atwill
Eric Gorman, Zoologist
Gail Patrick
Jerry Evans
Randolph Scott
Dr. Woodford, Zoo Toxicologist
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