Or as everyone in the film calls it, White Ponga. The title refers to a legendary albino gorilla, who may or may not be—you guessed it—the missing link between humans and apes. Following a sighting by a white man, a scientific expedition of upper-class Brits combs the jungle for the creature (passing the same tree several times). The character named Baxter sounds like an American trying badly to impersonate an Englishman (which he was). The others talk in accents thick enough to merit sub-titles.WHITE PONGO features boat-rowing, walking through the jungle, and stock footage galore, designed to pad out the film as the plot was too anemic to support a feature. There's also a romantic sub-plot, but who cares?As with any low-budget jungle film of this era, the gorilla suits are just plain awful. They remind me of the Don Martin/Mad Magazine story, "National Gorilla Suit Day." The jungle scenery looks like a movie set designed by white people whose closest encounter with Africa was "The Lion Sleeps Tonight." And of course, the pacing is glacial.Other items of note:The African character named Mumbo Jumbo.The scene in which a native points to footprints in the dirt and exclaims, "Bwana, bwana! Pongo tracks!" Do white gorillas have noticeably different tracks than black ones?

F*ckin hell! I'm the most forgiving film guy in the world, but when you fill your film full of basically people walking around, travelling from one place to another, you've got a real problem there. I mean, last night I watched Queen of the Amazons, and rather enjoyed it. But this film is just padding, padding, padding, with an ending that'll have you logging into the IMDb and starting a film review with "Sh*te Mongo".Basically, some guy is rescued from some African native's camp in Africa with some diaries pertaining to the missing link, namely a white gorilla that's been kicking about. The guy who escapes catches jungle fever but gets those diaries back to some folk who now set off to catch the white Pongo, also known as 'some guy in a suit who doesn't do much'. Basically, the whole main portion of the film involves folks travelling to the location of the white Pongo, who spends that entire time following the group. Be infuriated as a) We watch folks sailing down a river b) Pointless romantic interludes c) 'hilarious' jokes at the expense of ethnic minorities, an ending that'll have you foaming at the mouth.Honestly, I had real trouble trying to pay attention to this one. I had high hopes for it and then it ended up being a torture session. At the halfway point I couldn't believe I hadn't watched the whole film. In the battle of Man vs Film this is a pure win for Film as I had no idea things were going to get so bad.

I wish I had a dollar for every film made about the African jungle or that featured some knucklehead dressed up in a gorilla costume during the 1930s and 40s--I'd be a millionaire. Sure, in this case it's a WHITE gorilla, but it's still at heart a movie like so many others.The film begins with a man escaping and making his way through the jungle back to civilization. During this torturous trek, he sees a white gorilla and once rescued he babbled on and on about it. How his rescuers took this to mean that this albino gorilla was some sort of "missing link", I have no idea and they soon set off to look for the beast.There must be something about the jungle, as some sort of aphrodisiac must grown in the wild. First, two men in the party fall for the lone lady in the group. Then later, Pongo (the white gorilla) himself and a black gorilla ALSO fall for this hottie! I could say more about the film, but frankly who cares?! Yet another man in gorilla suit film AND the gorilla becomes infatuated with the lady--haven't we seen this before....many times? Overall, a dull and not particularly inspiring film. I wish I could get as excited about the film like some of the other reviewers, but I just got bored with the film almost as soon as it started.

As low budget jungle movies go this one isn't that bad. The production values are reasonable and the acting is perfectly ok. The script and storyline just aren't up to much and the whole film drags badly in the middle section. Not that there's much of a climax either - they just don't seem to know how to use the white gorilla effectively. Of course he steals the girl - they always do. As far as the gorilla costumes etc are concerned believe me they are nowhere near the worst you will ever see in films of this vintage. Enjoyable fun and a decent print on the alpha DVD I saw.