Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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.

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".

wrbtu Just when you start to think this film isn't as bad as it sounds, it gets as bad as it sounds. It doesn't bother me that there's more stock footage than there is new footage, but it does bother me that they used the same stock footage clips two, three, & four times each! The narrator is integrated into the storyline verbally, but of course can't be integrated into the storyline physically, because the stock footage which comprises the main storyline is based on a 20 year old (at the time) silent movie! To get around this minor problem, the narrator takes the role of a voyeur. He's constantly hiding in the bushes, "observing" others (who of course can't see him because his footage won't be shot for another 20 years or so after they finished filming their part). The narrator rambles on constantly about why he didn't take a shot at the lions who were trying to eat humans, or why he didn't do this or do that. That would be OK, too, but after a while it just makes the narrator (who's the supposed "hero" of the film) seem like a wimp. The real hero of the film is a fellow named "Bennett" (actually Tarzan in the silent serial). There's lots of loose ends that are never tied up (like exactly what happened to Bennett, the Voodoo Priestess, & the little Jungle Boy). There's several fights between the Bad Black Gorilla & the Bad White Gorilla that are never resolved. They fight, then the narration goes elsewhere, then the two gorillas bump into each other again, act surprised, & start fighting again. When you mix all this nonsense together, you come out with one Good Campy Fun movie that must have had an influence on Ed Wood. The "African" wildlife scenes (from the silent serial) are actually pretty good, although non-African animals (like tigers & orangutans) are mixed in just to keep the viewer guessing at which continent this film actually takes place. I guess my favorite scene is the one in which Bennett has to save a damsel in distress from a newly discovered animal: a meat eating hippo! A word of caution to parents: although this film is certainly good fun for the kids, too, the Something Weird Video version contains several shorts after the feature, which contain full nudity, which is not stated on the video box.