Starring Richard Fraser, Maris Wrixon, Lionel Royce, Al Eben, Gordon Richards
Directed by Sam Newfield
(actor & director credits courtesy IMDB.com)
When a giant white gorilla is sighted in the African jungle, perhaps the missing link between apes and men, an expedition is launched to bring the beast back to civilization.
Low-budget "Poverty Row" studio PRC delivers a jungle adventure, and despite its shortcomings, there's items of interest, including some surprising parallels to Creature From The Black Lagoon, released almost a decade later. I appreciated how Raymond Schrock's screenplay allowed Wrixon's character to pursue Fraser's, rather than the other way around, as well as Ray Corrigan's performance in ape suit as the titular gorilla, underplaying the part instead of engaging in overly savage theatrics. The film is rather slow-moving, stock jungle footage isn't integrated well, and the romantic triangle doesn't offer anything we haven't seen before. However, Newfield delivers a fairly good-looking product with some entertainment value on a low budget.
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