BORIS KARLOFF in THE APE (Digitally Remastered DVD). Digiview Productions, 2005. 
 
Horror/Adaptation
Release Date: 1940
(New DVD) Not Rated
 
Dr. Bernard Adrian (Boris Karloff) is researching a way to help a wheelchair-bound patient, Frances (Maris Wrixon), use her legs again. The only way he can achieve this is by procuring spinal fluid from a human. When an ape escapes from a circus, Dr. Adrian kills it in a confrontation and successfully uses its spinal fluid on Frances -- but he needs more. Using the ape's body as a suit, he kills townspeople in a crazed attempt to complete his plan.
 
Shrink-wrapped DVD in the original case.