R C Anybody who thinks Bela Lugosi's poverty row horrors represent the absolute pits of 40s film-making has yet to see The White Gorilla, a piece of stinking crud of the cut-and-paste school of exploitation that even makes Jerry Warren's Creature of the Walking Dead start to look good. You may even begin to regret unkind words you've had for cut-and-paste 80s ninja pap peddler Godfrey Ho.Any giggles at how bad this movie is will soon subside into yawns and groans as the sixty soul-scarring minutes of animal stock footage and recycled silent movie scenes take their toll on the viewer's dignity. The only reason it gets a rating of 3 from me, as opposed to a 1 or 2, is the occasional appearance of the guy in the white gorilla suit with the unusually large posterior."With every bone in my body aching, I limped away," the protagonist says at one point. You will likely feel much the same after sitting through all of The White Gorilla, a barnstorming candidate for IMDb's Bottom 100 list if ever there was one.

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.

oscar-35 Man, even as a Ray "Crash' Corrigan fan, this film is very hard to get through. I couldn't figure out why this film starts with so many obvious stock footage cuts not having to do with the principle characters and then moves into black & white story line with our real star 'Crash'. But then, there is a see-saw story scene jumping involving some clearly silent footage from an ancient jungle film with a miniature Tarzan kid. What does this have to do with a "White Gorilla"? Nothing. Then, we get some silly narration plot story about the battle between a black and white gorilla in a racsist jungle? Crazy! This is getting far to crazy for me to follow. As a Crash Corrigan fan, I guess I was supposed to swoon over my hero playing the lead big game hunter and BOTH of the battling gorilla parts in this film. I wasn't swooning and saw little charm in this film because it seemed a total rip-off of someone's previous film and the plot went nowhere. I was grossly disappointed in this film especially when you compare it to other Corrigan western serials and his scifi monster films. This was a dud. BTW: there is a great steak restaurant in 100o Oaks, Calif named "Corrigans" that was opened and is owned by the present Corrigan family. The food is grand and the place has all of Crash's film memorabilia from his time in the movies. A great visit for fans of Crash or his western theme park in nearby Santa Susanna, Corriganville.

JohnHowardReid Fascinatingly awful, this composite of Ray Corrigan (as the gorilla) waylaying Ray Corrigan (as the hero), interspersed with an extraordinary amount of cheesily acted old serial footage, has to be seen to be believed. Sad to say, the hero of the serial is Frank Merrill, a champion gymnast who was still a household name when I was growing up. Mind you, the chubby little jungle boy, riding on the trunk of a real elephant, does a creditable turn, but the rest of the serial players, especially including hero Merrill, heroine Gilbert and heavy Belmour (or Belmore) are strictly from hunger, enacting in a weirdly exaggerated style that went out of fashion around 1910. On the other hand, the animal footage of snapping lions would be still tolerably exciting, but it's ruined by poor presentation at the wrong speed.As for the talkative framing story of the white gorilla, it will enthrall only Mr Corrigan's keenest fans. Production values can only be described as Poverty Row minus. It's sad to see Francis Ford, Lorraine Miller and an unflatteringly photographed Charles King mixed up, however briefly, in this charade.