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Excellent, Without a doubt!!

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The acting in this movie is really good.

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.

OK, you know how Star Wars re-released the original 3 movies with new cg effects, sound, color, etc? They were presenting a 20 year old movie to a fresh audience. That is exactly what The White Gorilla is; everyone on here has commented on how they used footage from this old silent film... COME ON!! They didn't just *use* the silent film, it *is* that old silent film! (with a few minor additions, the gorilla scenes and the narration). I haven't sat down and timed it out, but it's gotta be 75% old movie at the very least... probably more like 80-90%. I can't imagine what they DIDN'T show from Perils of the Jungle in this film. As far as the terrible commentary goes.. did anyone notice when he just stops narrating in mid-sentence? It's at the start of the scene where he (or someone) rescues the jungle-boy from the lions by lowering a vine, he says something like, "I started wondering again about the little jungle boy I'd seen earlier; little did I know-"...presumably little-did-he-know he was walking right up on him, but it just cuts off mid-sentence and he doesn't say a word until the next scene. Believe me, it's not intentional, like to add suspense or something. It's very unnatural, you can tell he kept talking. I've managed my way through about half this movie so far, can't wait to see how it ends! :P

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".

How cheaply can you make a movie? Take a couple of actors, have them shoot a few scenes, then splice them in to scenes lifted from a silent film and you've saved a fortune.Such is the case of this story of a jungle expedition gone wrong. Told mostly in flashback by a survivor of the ill fated trip this is a movie that gives penny pinching a rich reputation.Almost the entire film is told in voice over narration and its a scream. Its perfectly awful and a great deal of fun to listen to. The movie itself is a bad movie lovers dream as mismatched silent footage is put together in some really interesting ways. A small white kid travels on the trunk of an elephant, a group of native villagers bounce about at the wrong frame speed, and our hero watches it all in footage with a different grain and normal running speed.This is a bad movie thats fun.Grab the popcorn and some friends and feel free to add your own commentary.Warning: this is not a good movie in the conventional sense. If you want a good movie look elsewhere, but if you want a bad rib tickler look no farther.