Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: Germany

Also known as The Gorilla of Soho, this is one of Rialto Film’s many krimi adaptions of the works of Edgar Wallace. Now, you may get confused — I do — as to whether these are giallo or not, what with Wallace also being one of the main inspirations for those Italian psychosexual movies. I guess the rule I always use is that in krimi, the cops seem to have a better idea of what they’re doing and the bad guys often have the wildest ways to kill people. You know, like a gorilla.

A gorilla is murdering rich men who have nothing in common other than the fact that they have money, all of which goes to the Love and Peace Foundation after their deaths and helps to support St. Mary’s Home for Wayward Girls.

After finding an African doll on one of the bodies, Scotland Yard Inspector Perkins (Horst Tappert) hires Susan (Uschi Glas), an interpreter who can do more than just tell him what the African doll had to say. She can also go undercover at St. Mary’s.

Maybe cops putting innocent people into danger like this is just an Edgar Wallace thing,

She learns that there’s a gang called the Gorillas that has ties to St. Mary’s, which seems to be the dumbest group of crooks ever as they can barely hide their tracks. There’s also a muta African girl named Dorothy (Catana Cayetano) and she’s part of the scheme, forced to help the evil Sister Elizabeth (Hilde Sessak) kill the millionaires. She’s the one who left the doll on the body to try and get help.

As if that’s not enough, the head of the Love and Peace Foundation, Henry Parker (Albert Lieven, is blackmailed by Sugar (Herbert Fux) and his brother’s widow Cora (Beate Hasenau). She’s fallen on hard times and becomes a sex worker. And oh yeah — Susan inherits a ton of money from the father she never knew, so now the nuns want to toss her in the Thames.

It turns out that Mother Superior (Inge Langen) and Parker are running this scam. They want to take the money from the rich and give it to the poor and by that, I mean themselves. They even have a henchman named Pepper (Uwe Friedrichsen) who wears the gorilla suit, which seems to be a bit of icing on the cake that already has icing on it.

If you say, “Have I seen this before?” the answer may be yes, provided that you have seen either the 1939 or 1961 versions of Dead Eyes of London. It has a very similar plot except, you guessed it, this one has a gorilla in it. And sleaze.

If Alfred Vohrer was going to direct the same movie again, it seems like he was going to add lots of topless women, exotic dance clubs and houses of ill repute. It’s so filled with sex that the head of Scotland Yard, Sir Arthur (Hubert von Meyerinck) has a girl in his closet who keeps emerging at the exact wrong time as if he were the krimi Commandant Lassard.