Thursday, May 31, 2012

The White Gorilla (1945)

Directed by Harry L. Fraser
My rating: BOMB
IMDb
(DVD, VCI Entertainment)

Scenes from the old silent serial "Perils of the Jungle" are given music and sound effects and then edited into newly shot footage of some guys sitting around in a jungle hut. One of them tells a story in flashback of how he found a jungle boy who rode an elephant and who, with the help of a white woman acting crazy, ruled over a native tribe by operating arms inside a statue of a cyclops. Mostly though, there is tons and tons of footage of wild animals. Oh, and lets not forget the white gorilla, whose origin and purpose in this movie goes completely unexplained. Despite the fact that he fights with a black gorilla, I did not detect any racial undertones.

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