The White Gorilla (1945)

Wow, this is a REALLY bad movie!

the audience applauded

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

From what I've read, this film was made largely by splicing stock footage together with footage shot 20 years later. It's not particularly noteworthy or well-made by any stretch of the imagination, but it's surprisingly effective for being this poorly produced.Much of the film's ample stock footage time is narrated rather poorly by a man who spends most of the movie off camera (his scenes were apparently shot years after the original footage). Some of the stock footage is used multiple times, in completely different scenarios. Moreover, the non-stock footage tends to be relatively bland. Still, the movie fits together surprisingly well and is reasonably entertaining, and this is quite an accomplishment. I give it 4-to-5 stars because I'm impressed at what the crew could do with such a terrible and corny idea.It's no masterpiece, but the movie is entertaining in a campy-'40s-newsreel kind of way.

I hadn't read anything about The White Gorilla before I started watching it so it took me a while to realize most of it was an old silent film.Ah but what a silent film it was, ginormous flocks, nay herds of male lions tearing up the landscape and chimps and orangutans and tigers all mixed and stirred to give you a world view of raw nature of the 1920s. I thought the narration was pleasant although I did notice the one point where he just stopped speaking for no reason at all.Was it a bad movie? Maybe but it made me smile and kept me wanting to know what would happen next. And I found the sight of those droves of terrifically excited male lions trying to eat everybody in sight considerably more chilling than similar scenes in many "better" films.Finally I LOVED the fact that due to the impossibility of actually merging the two films at the end the fate of the silent film cast was left up in the air as 'missing but there were a lot of bones laying around where they were last seen' -- outstanding!Yep I'll watch this one again.

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.

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.