Lionel Atwill
Eric Gorman
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Murders in the Zoo. Murders in the Zoo is a 1933 pre-Code horror film directed by A. Edward Sutherland, written by Philip Wylie and Seton I. Miller. Particularly dark, even for its time, film critic Leonard Maltin called the film "astonishingly grisly."
A zoologist kills his unfaithful wife and uses zoo animals to dispose of the bodies. IMDb provides cast, crew, reviews, trivia, and more for this pre-code era movie.
- (1.8K)
- Crime, Horror
- A. Edward Sutherland
- 1933-03-31
A horror comedy film about a zoologist who uses zoo animals to kill his wife's suitors. Watch the full movie online or download it for free from the Internet Archive.
- 62 min
- 6.3K
- BERTUS856
Murders in the Zoo was directed by former silent comic A. Edward ("Eddie") Sutherland, who engaged in pratfalls as one of the original Keystone Cops for Mack Sennett, and later directed such high profile comedies as Mississippi (1935) and Poppy (1936), both starring W. C. Fields, and Laurel and Hardy in The Flying Deuces (1939).
- Edward Sutherland
- Charles Ruggles
A 1933 horror comedy about a jealous zoologist who uses his animals to kill his wife's lovers. See critics and audience reviews, cast and crew, photos, and more information about this pre-code film.
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- Lionel Atwill
- A. Edward Sutherland
- Paramount
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Oct 17, 2022 · Review: Murders in the Zoo (1933) Within the first moments of the film, Murders in the Zoo lets us know what we're in for. We enter on a jungle scene as a group of adventurers hold down a struggling man while their leader--played with wonderful menace by Lionel Atwill--sews the captive's mouth shut. Atwill stars as Eric Gorman, a zoologist who ...
