The movie was filmed partly on location at Nu-Pike Amusement Park in Long Beach, California (now demolished). You can spot some of the original ride names, like Cyclone Racer, Laff in the Dark and Crazy Maize. It is a little weird that the mirror maze attraction was spelled Maize, but don't blame it on the filmmakers, blame it on the park.
Here's what an online dictionary of baby names has to say: "The girl's name Maisie \ ma(i)-sie\ is pronounced MAY-zee. Maisie has 6 variant forms: Maisee, Maisey, Maisy, Maizie, Mazey and Mazie." (Note that none of them are spelled Maize.)
BTW, the seam on the gorilla glove was shown on purpose. The filmmakers were depicting the FAKE gorilla arm (worn by the unseen killer) unlocking the cage of the "real" gorilla. It wasn't an unintentional mistake.
>..hehe....this movie was horrid...
Wow, I don't agree at all. This movie was a lot of fun! It was 20th Century Fox's answer to the big Warner Bros 3-D hit of the prior year, "House of Wax." Top notch cast, gorgeous Technicolor and lots of production value. Sure, all involved were "slumming" with that melodramatic plot, but that's show biz. 3-D movies of the 1950s were generally designed to appeal to the broadest spectrum of the movie-going public.
"Gorilla at Large" is so much better than earlier poverty-row ape pictures (see PRC's "Nabonga", which has its own pleasures) or the ultra-cheap Drive-In monster movies made later.
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