White Pongo

1945
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1h 11m

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Ray Corrigan, Joel Fluellen, and Maris Wrixon in White Pongo (1945)

Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape.Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape.Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape.

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Trivia
Made by Sigmund Neufeld Productions, headed by Sigmund who produced the film and was the brother of its director, Sam Newfield. Sam is legendary in Hollywood for having turned out somewhere in the neighborhood of 350 pictures in a 30-year career.

Goofs
Although the title of the film is "White Pongo", the white gorilla is referred to as "White Ponga" throughout the movie.

Quotes
Clive Carswell: It takes more than a shave to make a gentleman.

Alternate versions
A short movie entitled "White Gorilla", made for 8mm and 16mm home release in the 1950s and available on the Something Weird DVD release of "Night of the Bloody Apes"/"Feast of Flesh" was not condensed from this film as some have suggested. It was actually reedited from the feature "White Gorilla" which was also made in 1945.

Connections
Edited into Dark Jungle Theater: White Pongo (2015)

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4/10

Unintended Comedy

One of many Poverty Row jungle films, this has to be one of the truly "so bad it's good" films of its era. A Chief Native Bearer named "Mumbo Jumbo" -- addressed by the other actors with a straight face! Pongo is a white gorilla, and one of the natives points to the ground and cries, "B'wana! B'wana! Pongo tracks!" Normal gorillas leave recognizably different tracks? Pressing through the jungle on their trek, they pass the same tree multiple times.

I have a copy of the film on videotape. One of my favorite scenes was edited out of the print it was made from. The hero and heroine are drifting down the river on a boat. They're sitting in the moonlight, and Pongo is following the boat in the jungle, making quite a racket as he snaps small trees, hurls aside boulders, and rustles through the underbrush, to keep up with the boat. He's framed by the profiles of the hero and heroine, in the background. The hero looks deeply into the heroine's eyes and says, dreamily, "Quiet out here in the river, isn't it?" I hope the DVD has that one left in.

This is not a great film, and all of its humorous scenes are intended to be serious. But because of that, it's a fun film.