The White Gorilla (1945)

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One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Yesterday I had no idea that there were movies that were made from other movies, now I have seen two of them.This flick starts with what looks to be old silent film of African animals.The narrator rambles about a bunch of nothing while the animals act very unnaturally.Probably because they are actually captive.Then it cuts to an injured guy falling down and some other men find him and act very concerned.The man says he saw a white gorilla and then they all make fun of him and forget he was near death a minute ago.Then the guy starts to tell a story and the flashback is an old silent film.It's a long,drawn out story about how all the lions in the jungle are going crazy and are trying to kill all the people, who are all white of course.There's a little kid who rides on an elephants trunk and some Arabs and none of it makes much sense.There is literally no plot.The entire white gorilla thing is just extra stuff that has nothing to do with the story.Don't get me wrong, this movie is not boring.It just doesn't have a story.There's lots of action but it's all meaningless.Of course I'm giving a second star just because it wasn't boring.Watch at your own risk.

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.

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.

Harry L. Fraser, the writer and one of the producers of this movie, was also the writer of Perils of the Jungle, the 1927 serial from which he took the archive footage. The serial did have good animal scenes, so it's hard to fault Fraser for finding a way to recycle what would otherwise be badly outdated and unusable silent footage. The problem, as every other commentator has noted, is the impossibility of integrating the two films smoothly, and the terrible plot -- if there is a plot -- of the new footage.Frank Merrill, the hero of the 1927 serial, did play Tarzan in two later movies, Tarzan the Mighty and Tarzan the Tiger, but he was playing a different and unrelated character in Perils of the Jungle.Crash Corrigan, the hero of the new wrap-around movie, made a specialty of playing gorillas, and he often played other roles in the movies in which he donned the gorilla suit, but I believe this may be the only movie in which his human character directly confronts his animal character.