Tuesday, August 26, 2014

White Pongo (1945)

aka Blond Gorilla

How bad is it? It's one of the silliest jungle films of all time.
Should you see it? It's one of the silliest jungle films of all time. [Hey, 400 posts before I did that.]

Sam Newfield directed this; he directed a number of low budget atrocities (I covered Terror of Tiny Town already) and had made a gorilla film, Nabonga, the previous year, which also had Ray Crash Corrigan as the ape. In this one, a policeman goes under cover to join British biologists who are searching for the missing link. What they find is a giant white gorilla that wants to mate with Maris Wrixon... which, would, I guess, prove their assertion. This film is universally applauded as a great-terrible jungle film.

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