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The Monster and the Ape

Entry posted by atari2600land February 12, 2014

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It's too bad I discovered MST3k about six weeks before it went off the air for good on the Sci-Fi channel in 2004. So I went and bought the DVD sets. On the early episodes was a serial: Commando Cody. It was then that I discovered the serial. I don't know why people would go to the movie to see part of it. I guess it's because that most of them were around before TVs. I began watching one of the longer ones. It's called The Monster and the Ape. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037927/ So it's 15 chapters. And the box says it runs 450 minutes. So we'll see. Each chapter is about a half-hour long, and there's fifteen of them. That is 450. So I don't know why some sites list this as being half shorter. So it's about robots. People are going around pronouncing it "ro-butts." I guess the word robot was new back then and people didn't know how to pronounce it correctly. I guess this is the monster of the title. The ape was in just a few minutes of chapter 1 where it strangled 4 people to death (what a way to open a serial.) Anyway, I plan to watch one chapter a night for the next two weeks.