Murder on the midway! Looking west on The Pike in Long Beach with a bit of the marquee of the Strand Theatre on the right. It's a shot from "Gorilla at Large" (20th Century Fox, May 1954), originally released in both 3-D and flat versions.
Solving the case is complicated by the fact there are two gorillas -- one real, one just a suit. The film did lots of shooting on The Pike. We get an aerial act, a mirror maze, games of chance and lots more. The film stars Anne Bancroft, Cameron Mitchell, Raymond Burr, Lee J. Cobb, Charlotte Austin, Peter Whitney, Lee Marvin and Warren Stevens. Harmon Jones directed. The cinematography was by Lloyd Ahern Sr.
See the page about the Strand Theatre on the Los Angeles Theatres site for information about this now-vanished Long Beach theatre.
A one sheet appearing on IMDb.
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