Leofwine_draca WHITE PONGO is another of those movies with an interesting-sounding premise and a very dull execution. It's a jungle safari film in which a bunch of the dullest characters imaginable head into the jungle in search of a mythical white gorilla. The trouble is, this plotting plays out very slowly indeed, with a maximum of padding that makes it a tough watch. None of the characters stand out and the only people making an effort are the sound effects guys with their constant jungle ambience noises. As for White Pongo himself, he's just the usual guy in a gorilla suit you've seen a million times; he just happens to be a different colour.

Quincy Hughes Well, let's face it: a movie from the 1940's about a white gorilla (who's actually yellow on the packaging, but let's not obsess over details here) isn't likely to be Oscar material, and the Razzies didn't exist yet so that's out too, but if you're going into this with an open mind and appreciating of suckdom, then you can sure find worse ways to lose 70 minutes of your life.White Pongo is in the jungle, and the hunters all are trying to find him, since he's the missing link between man and ape, or something to that effect. Among the expedition are your obligatory hottie, your obligatory guy with a hidden agenda, and your obligatory hero undercover, who ultimately stops the obligatory guy with a hidden agenda and ends the film liplocked with the obligatory hottie. After you sit through 15-20 minutes of complete filler such as boats going down rivers, stock footage of real Africa (as opposed to "Hollywood Africa" that takes up most of the film) and what is apparently the only jungle noise that the sound technicians could come up with (some sort of monkey chirping that you'll be hearing in your sleep after listening to it for the duration of the film), White Pongo ultimately kills the obligatory guy with a hidden agenda, then saves the obligatory hottie who has been kidnapped by an unnamed evil gorilla by having the worst five minutes of gorilla brawling ever put to cellulite. However, this is made more fun by the audio track on the Alpha Video DVD being at least a full minute behind the video for a good six or seven minutes of the latter part of the film, so at some points it seems like the gorillas are girlie-screaming and running through a pile of crunchy jungle on two feet. Anyway, WP wins the battle, and his reward is being caged up and brought back to America by the obligatory hero undercover. Hey, who said life was always fair, right? To be honest, there actually was at least an attempt at a coherent storyline in this film, so I can appreciate that end of it. Beyond that, though, White Pongo is just another wonderfully awful film for all of us who can enjoy the worst Hollywood could give us in those days gone by.

Chris Gaskin I've just watched White Pongo for the first time and found it great fun. It's one of those movies that is unintentionally funny.A group of scientists from London head to the jungles of Africa to search for a missing link white gorilla creature that lives there. They intend to capture it. They find it and, as often happens in these sort of movies the creature takes a fancy to the only woman in the party and kidnaps her and takes her to its home, a cave. She manages to escape and the gorilla (Ray Corrigan in a white gorilla suit) has a fight with another gorilla (a man in a monkey suit) and is then captured.This movie is several unintentionally funny moments, including that fight at the end. We also get to see several other men in monkey suits romping about. White Pongo himself looks more like a Yeti to me.As mentioned above, White Pongo is played by Ray Corrigan who has often played gorillas in movies and his others include Nabonga and The White Gorilla. He also was in the sleuth suit in Unknown Island and played the monster in It! The Terror From Beyond Space.White Pongo is certainly worth viewing. Great fun.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.

Ghost222 This movie for some reason isn't as popular as Plan 9 and Robot Monster, but it's really good (in a bad way). The whole film is a waste of your time. You got a stupid storyline - an albino gorilla running around the jungle terrorizing people. You got scientist trying to stop the havoc. Then there's the horrible monkey suit and dialogue. Yes, it's one of the worst! Watch it!