Michael_Elliott The White Gorilla (1945) BOMB (out of 4)Ray Corrigan plays Steve Collins, a jungle adventurer who is sitting with another group of people as he tells them about his dangerous encounter with the mythical white gorilla. It turns out that the white gorilla was thrown out from his group due to his color and before long he is battling with the normal looking gorillas. Oh yeah, we've also got a guy trying to save a girl in the jungle.THE WHITE GORILLA is an extremely embarrassing and cheap exploitation movie that tries to pass itself off as something new when in fact it runs 62-minutes and I'd argue that maybe six of those minutes are new scenes. The majority of the footage comes from the 1927 serial PERILS OF THE JUNGLE. That serial is nearly impossible to see yet this trash movie is available on countless formats. Go figure.The biggest issue with this movie is that it's extremely cheap, laughable and there really wasn't any attempt to blend the new scenes with the old ones. What really makes the older scenes stick out is the fact that they're silent so obviously it's like you're watching two different movies. When the "new" footage does try to interact with the old, it too is rather embarrassing and especially since you can't get the current cast into the old footage and the poor editing job is just obvious.The footage from the 1927 film looks terrific. I will say that my interest in watching that film is certainly high thanks to this picture as there were all sorts of animals and it was great footage of them. With that said, it's hard to give THE WHITE GORILLA any credit for those scenes so the BOMB rating is certainly deserved here.

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.

kidboots This was the weirdest film. It was made in 1945 but the main part of the film was from a 1927 silent serial "Perils of the Jungle". There is wonderful wild animal footage from it. The "modern" part of the film starred Ray "Crash" Corrigan, who comes to the Outpost Trading store after being attacked by a rare white gorilla (also played by Corrigan. He made a career out of playing gorillas and apes). He has a strange story to tell.This part of the film is from the silent serial and is by far the most interesting part of the film. Bennett and his partner are captured by natives and about to be killed when they are rescued by a little jungle boy. He is very cute and seems to be quite skilled at handling the animals - he only looks about 6!!! The story is told by Corrigan who was part of the group but seemed to spend the entire film peering through bushes, up trees or running from the action!!!!After being rescued they find a girl living in a hut with her blind father. She is able to get her hands on all the latest cosmetics somewhere in the jungle (may be from the "Outpost Trading Store"!!!) Every few minutes about 20 lions roar into the village - how anyone has managed to live a week in this jungle is amazing!!! How the old blind father has survived is very surprising - the lions trample their little hut minutes after Bennett gets there.There is also a strange man that rescues the little jungle boy but doesn't come back into the film. Also the jungle boy's mother has convinced the natives that she is a high priestess - the little boy has found a way to move the hands of the idol without being seen so the natives are afraid.Every so often the white gorilla appears (just to remind you he is the star) - it fights Corrigan, an ordinary gorilla and tries to carry off a girl who has fainted. It is pretty entertaining. It makes you want to see the silent serial in it's entirety.

Hitchcoc They must have had some leftover film and an old silent movie. Some Saturday afternoon, everyone got together and put together the bulk of this. Then a couple monkey suits left over from an old Lugosi film, a little narration, a scene in a trading post set, and voilà, you have a dumb movie. It apparently takes place in Africa but there are animals from all over the world. The elephants are mostly Indian elephants and there are tigers and lions. The story is about as lame as you can get in that there is no closure anywhere. Issues are never tied up. The narrator, Crash Corrigan, spends almost the whole movie thrashing around in the weeds, spying on people. He doesn't do anything to help. There is also a silly looking little boy who has dominion over animals and black natives. It goes around and around and never gets anywhere. This is a real bomb.