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Paris, France | Locked Room
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The famous "gorilla performer" Charles Gemora, who plays the gorilla, also played the gorilla in the original Universal version Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932).
Actor Charles Gemora (Sultan the ape) suffered a heart attack in 1943 which limited his screen time in the ape costume. He performed in his suit for closeups and any strenuous work was completed by a stuntman.
This was the final film made under Merv Griffin's contract with Warner Brothers. His salary never rose above the relatively paltry sum of $250 a week, and when Phantom tanked, Griffin abandoned his hopes of ever being a leading man in the movies, concentrating instead on succeeding in television.
To take advantage of the 3-D process in which it was originally released, throughout the film, characters and objects are thrown at the lens, move toward the camera or are quickly zoomed in on. While this may have elicited gasps and applause from 1954 movie audiences, when seeing it shown "flat" as it is on television, this becomes both intrusive and distracting.
When told that he'd been cast in this film as a student studying at the Sorbonne, Merv Griffin supposedly remarked: "Me, playing a Frenchman, with my night-train-to-Dublin puss?!?"
"Dr. Marais: These days inspector everything is Freud or it is nothing, Freud and the libido, anything new, especialy from zoologists like myself... Prof. Paul Dupin: ...At least has a reception here. Dr. Marais maintains that in all forms of life, from the micro to man, the killer instinct lies latent. Dr. Marais: Held in check for most of us, but for others igniting under certain hatred, or passion, or a crowning frustration, or a total collapse of one's beliefs..."
