Oh man, a couple days ago, was I making fun of Lost Jungle? I take back everything bad I said about that movie, because it was a thrilling spectacle compared to White Gorilla, a horrible film assembled out of the bits and pieces of an old silent serial with some new footage of guys lying on cots thrown in for good measure. It's yet another movie where a haggard dude stumbles into a camp and tells a story about how he got all tattered. So begins endless narration over old silent film footage of a jungle adventure film with no adventure involved, unless you consider watching guys in pith helms crouching in trees to be adventurous.

Writer/producer Harry L. Fraser also wrote an old serial called Perils of the Jungle, and most of the footage in this film comes from that. Guys in safari gear squat in the bushes and watch stock footage, which includes lots of elephants and a little white feral child-god who rides around on an elephant trunk in the most awkward looking position imaginable. Eventually, a black gorilla fights a white gorilla, and the racial implications are laughably obvious. Crash Corrigan plays both the hero and the gorilla the hero fights. The entire things seems like the people writing it forgot what they were writing about ten minutes in, and then just started making up a new film, but forgot that one, too. I know I hard a time remembering it as I was watching it. This was almost dumb enough for me to reminisce longly for Queen of the Amazons.

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