BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (1951)

 You get Raymond Burr, starring here, as an unruly worker who ends up killing a guy and getting a curse put on him by an old witch-lady.  Naturally she turns him into a big murderous gorilla because that's what you want to do to angry guys, give them the strength of an ape.  Obviously this movie is pretty nonsensical  all around and the gorilla suit looks really fake as it almost always did in these old horror and jungle flicks.  This also really doesn't work as a very good horror film at all since nothing is very tense or frightening.Woody Strode has a small part as a police officer and Lon Chaney Jr. is also here as a police chief and it's kinda weird seeing him in a good guy role for once in his career.  Chaney doesn't have as big of a role as you might expect from seeing his name in big letters on the poster and it's really Burr's picture.  The director of this, Curt Siodmak, is way better known as a writer of some of the  Universal classic monster flicks(most famously THE WOLF MAN) and a bunch of other classics, maybe he shoulda stuck to writing.
 I own this flick on a cheap-ass VHS as well as DVD just because it's part of a gorilla movie box-set and generally I am a fan of simian-cinema though this one is really down towards the bottom of the barrel.