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Scientist Boris Borodoff (Eugene Sigaloff) travels to Borneo with his
assistant Alma (Mae Stuart) to capture an orangutan and prove his theory
the animal is the closest relative to the human. Borodoff, a very
self-consumed man, soon clashes with their guide, big game hunter Bob Ward
(John Preston), though, not only because Ward thinks it's unethical to
capture animals for anything but circuses, least of all scientific
research, but also because Alma has taken a liking to Bob - and Borodoff
has just found out he's in love wioth her himself. Eventually, Bob
really captures a grown orangutan, anything but an easy feat, but when
Borodoff's clumsiness causes the death of one of the native bearers, the
other bearers just leave the next night. Borodoff wants to kill the
orangutan and perform an autopsy on him, but Bob wants to set him free.
The two have a fight in which Borodoff knocks Bob out, and the orangutan
who has just exited his cage, drags him off into the jungle. Borodoff
tells Alma that Bob has died and now wants to perform the autopsy on Bob's
pet baby orangutan, which manages to escape though. When Alma goes after
the animal, she finds Bob, bruised and battered but still alive. Out of
nowhere, Borodoff shows up to threaten the two of them with a gun, but
suddenly he's attacked and killed by the grown orangutan he wanted to
kill, actually. Eventually, Bob and Alma are picked up and brought back
to civilisation by a native tribe. A jungle film actually
filmed in the jungles of Borneo by Harry Garson, who earlier did second
unit work on the similarly titled East
of Borneo, Beast of Borneo does show some appeal thanks to
its greater level of authencity, but loses most of it again thanks to its
very pedestrian mad scientist/love triangle story that's not only full of
clichés but also boringly told and carried by a sub-par cast. Now I do
love jungle movies from the 1930's pretty much in general, but this isn't
one of the better ones.
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