Directed by Robert Gordon
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Michael Gough is the deranged owner of a private zoo. He plays the pipe organ in his living room while big cats lounge on the furniture. When a scummy businessman threatens to close him down, he kills him in his bachelor pad with one of his lions. Later, his alcoholic wife and her chimp act threaten to leave him for the circus, so he kills the friend who got her the job. A teenaged mute assistant turns out to be his son and turns on him in the end. Occasionally atmospheric but the melodramatic story and hammy Gough performance do it in.
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