Bride of the Gorilla - Lon Chaney Jr.

1951 written and directed by Curt Siodmak (who also wrote The Wolfman, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, Son of Dracula, I Walked with a Zombie) starring Lon Chaney Jr., Raymond Burr, Tom Conway, Paul Cavanaugh, Woody Strode and Barbara Peyton, Carol Varga, Felippa Rock, Moyna McGill and Gisela Werbisek, (yes, that’s WERBISEK), in the girl parts.

Villainous plantation owner Burr murders his foreman in order to get his paws on his lusty wife. Unfortunately, the deed is witnessed by an old, native witch, (Wersibek) and she puts a curse on him so that he turns into a gorilla-like beast, which ruins everything.