I've got 4 "ape horror" movies I'm gonna watch ending with king kong for the finale...
first one is The Monster Walks (1932)
The Monster Walks had some racial moments in it that are a bit cringey especially when they push that black kid and when they say the black kid is related to the ape where as the script made him say in a stupid voice that the ape does in fact look like one of his relatives, yaaaa...
I do enjoy when the ape chokes out the villain dude.