Murders In The Zoo

threat and horror

We see a close-up image of a man whose lips have been stitched together, with small amounts of blood over his scratched face. A woman is pinned down by a man over the side of a bridge above an alligator pool; the man puts his hand over her mouth to muffle her screams. A man is bitten by a snake, which then coils around his body in order to crush him. There are comic scenes in which a nervous man becomes scared by various zoo animals.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man grabs his wife and pulls her close to him as she struggles to get away. He runs a hand over her clothed body, touching her breasts and face, and tells her to kiss him before she breaks away.

A man is stabbed in the shoulder with a syringe, resulting in sight of blood on his clothing. In a moment of brief comic innuendo a man says he has spent nights with animals, then realises this could be misinterpreted. We see animals kept in small pens and bear cubs restrained by chained collars in a zoo setting. We wee dead bodies and hear references to people being fatally attacked by alligators and tigers. There are dated attitudes to alcoholism in which a man's drinking problem is treated in a comic fashion.

One or more of the releases in this collection was cut.

Classified Date:

05/05/1933

Version:

2D

Use:

Cinema

Distributor:

Paramount Film Service Ltd

sexual threat, moderate horror, threat

Classified Date:

03/03/2023

Version:

2D

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Eureka Entertainment Ltd

Cuts:

The distributor chose to make cuts to a sequence of animal cruelty. Cuts were made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines, policy, and the Video Recordings Act, 1984, which applies the standards of the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937.

threat and horror

We see a close-up image of a man whose lips have been stitched together, with small amounts of blood over his scratched face. A woman is pinned down by a man over the side of a bridge above an alligator pool; the man puts his hand over her mouth to muffle her screams. A man is bitten by a snake, which then coils around his body in order to crush him. There are comic scenes in which a nervous man becomes scared by various zoo animals.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A man grabs his wife and pulls her close to him as she struggles to get away. He runs a hand over her clothed body, touching her breasts and face, and tells her to kiss him before she breaks away.

A man is stabbed in the shoulder with a syringe, resulting in sight of blood on his clothing. In a moment of brief comic innuendo a man says he has spent nights with animals, then realises this could be misinterpreted. We see animals kept in small pens and bear cubs restrained by chained collars in a zoo setting. We wee dead bodies and hear references to people being fatally attacked by alligators and tigers. There are dated attitudes to alcoholism in which a man's drinking problem is treated in a comic fashion.

Classified date

03/03/2023

Director(s)

A. Edward Sutherland

Production Year

1933

Genre(s)

Horror

Approx. running minutes

62m

Cast

Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick