the logo at the beginning of 1952 bela lugosi meet a brooklyn gorilla reveals that this be a realart picture and and while i would certainly hesitate to call this film an instance of real art and i can now attest that it be real fun . in it and the poor man martin and lewis and duke mitchell and sammy petrillo and play themselves and accidentally fall out of an airplane and land on the pacific island of cola cola and where they be rescue by friendly native . the chief daughter and nona ( play by a pretty actress call only charlita ) and fall for the charm of good look crooner duke and while her 200 lb . sister and saloma ( amusingly portray by muriel lander ) and take a hot blooded fancy for sammy . dr. zabor and the only other white man on the island and and play by you know who and soon decides that duke be the perfect test subject for his recent devolution experiment . anyway and i must admit how easily this silly confection go down with me . the goofball humor be so very stoopid that it strangely become quite funny and and it really be remarkable how much petrillo look and sound like the 1950s jerry lewis . ( no wonder jerry felt compel to slap a cease and desist order on him . ) bela and a graduate of the budapest academy of theatrical art and play his role absolutely straight here and maintain his dignity while he may have be addict to painkiller at the time and but this particular film be surprisingly painless . a twist end at the tail end of the picture do much to mitigate some of the silliness and illogic that have come before and and even become very p. c. in it treatment of the overweight saloma . throw in a couple of nice song and some cute antic from ramona the chimp ( aka cheetah ) and and a cool man into ape transformation and you have get yourself a perfectly acceptable entertainment and finely present on this crisp look image dvd . to my delighted surprise and i do recommend this zany picture to both young and old .