Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla [1952]

Two American entertainers (Sammy and Duke) are on a flight to Guam, where they are scheduled to entertain American soldiers. Due to an error, they parachute out of the airplane in mid- flight. They are rescued by the natives of the (fictional ) island of Kola Kola, on the southern fringes of the Zambuanga Archipelago. They befriend the chief's daughter Nona, who has been educated in an American college and is quite familiar with American culture. However, the duo have no way to leave the isolated island. Nona instructs them to seek help from an expatriate scientist who lives on the island, the elderly Dr. Zabor. Zabor offers them both hospitality and the use of his wardrobe. Sammy does not fully trust him, as he is under the impression that Zabor is a vampire. Zabor is contacting experiments to reverse evolution, and he chooses Duke as a test subject. Transformed into a gorilla by the experiment, Duke uses pantomime to alert his partner.