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VividSimon Simply Perfect

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

MartinHafer This film begins in a very weird jungle. It is probably the loudest one in the history of film, as many, many different animals constantly scream in the background--sounding like a group of people are running around the zoo throwing rocks at the animals simultaneously!! You also may notice that the animals you see in stock footage are from the US, Africa AND Asia. Additionally, most of the clips are clearly from a silent movie series (PERILS OF THE JUNGLE) as these segments run way too fast (silent films run at 16-22 frames per second and sound at 24--so silent films always look a bit too fast when played on modern projectors). What a totally bizarre jungle and it's amazing that the film makers took so little care in these scenes.As for our "hero", Ray Corrigan, he narrates most of the film in a very flat tone. Additionally, when he recounts to his friends his exploits, he mostly just stands around as all the others in his party are killed or abducted. Some hero! Overall, there really isn't a film--just lots of old clips, a little irrelevant new material and some guy running about in a white gorilla suit! Frankly, it's boring and pointless--and not even entertaining--even for bad film buffs. A total bomb from start to finish.

fibbermac If you're looking for one of those "So bad it's good" movies, this definitely fits into that category. I've seen nearly every movie Ed Wood ever made, as well as numerous other stinkers in my day, but I never recall having the experience I had last night watching this film. After watching "Plan 9 From Outer Space", I suspected I had just seen the worst film ever made. But at the end of "The White Gorilla" I was firmly convinced that I had just watched the worst movie ever made. Acting, directing, story, dialog, editing,... you name it, they all are bottom of the barrel and come together to make this train-wreck of a jungle/adventure film. The film seemed to be 70% recycled footage from the silent serial "Perils of the Jungle", 20% stock footage of jungle animals, and 10% new footage which consists mainly of Ray "Crash" Corrigan slumped in a chair, recovering from an encounter with the albino ape of the title, narrating an incomprehensible story about the white gorilla and a safari that ultimately is eaten by tigers. If you have this film on tape or DVD, I'd suggest watching this film with the whole family, and then when the kids are misbehaving, threaten to make them watch it again.

classicsoncall Did you ever play that game where someone starts a story and then turns it over to the next person to carry it forward, and so on? Well that looks pretty much how "The White Gorilla" was put together, with this requirement - each story teller has to introduce a new person, and must include either a lion or an elephant in their segment. That would explain characters like the trunk riding elephant boy and his mother who acts insane to control the tiger men; really, I'm not making this up. By the end of the story, there's no resolution to the fate of these characters, they just drop out of the story along the way as if someone forgot all about them.Ray Corrigan is certainly no stranger to ape films of the 1940's, he appeared as the man in the gorilla suit for a whole slew of these jungle epics. Here he's actually top billed for portraying both the outcast white gorilla and the story's narrator, Steve Collins. It's genuinely comical that Collins describes the on screen action from the vantage point of a treetop or some other hidden location. The technique allows him to see through jungle forests and the walls of caves as if he had X-Ray vision. Of course the reason for this, as I've come to learn from this forum, is that the film was spliced together with scenes from the 1927 silent film, "Perils of the Jungle".Ray Corrigan and director Harry L. Fraser both made their marks years earlier in a fair share of 'B' Westerns each. Oddly, this film was the only time they crossed paths. Fraser managed to direct John Wayne in two Lone Star films in the 1930's - "'Neath The Arizona Skies" and "Randy Rides Alone".When the film's "ultimate" battle between the titled white gorilla and a fearsome black gorilla eventually occurs, it's very much a disappointment. They wind up sort of wrestling each other in a contest that has no resolution, in fact it happens a couple of times. Corrigan's turn as a gorilla in "White Pongo" on the other hand had a genuinely creative slug fest against his opponent, using uprooted trees as weapons, definitely a livelier contest. For that reason, I'd have to give "White Pongo" the edge in viewer satisfaction over this film. In fact, I'd probably have to give virtually any other ape movie the edge over "The White Gorilla". I say virtually, because there's at least one that's definitely worse - "King of Kong Island".

dbborroughs How cheaply can you make a movie? Take a couple of actors, have them shoot a few scenes, then splice them in to scenes lifted from a silent film and you've saved a fortune.Such is the case of this story of a jungle expedition gone wrong. Told mostly in flashback by a survivor of the ill fated trip this is a movie that gives penny pinching a rich reputation.Almost the entire film is told in voice over narration and its a scream. Its perfectly awful and a great deal of fun to listen to. The movie itself is a bad movie lovers dream as mismatched silent footage is put together in some really interesting ways. A small white kid travels on the trunk of an elephant, a group of native villagers bounce about at the wrong frame speed, and our hero watches it all in footage with a different grain and normal running speed.This is a bad movie thats fun.Grab the popcorn and some friends and feel free to add your own commentary.Warning: this is not a good movie in the conventional sense. If you want a good movie look elsewhere, but if you want a bad rib tickler look no farther.