AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Leofwine_draca WHITE PONGO is another of those movies with an interesting-sounding premise and a very dull execution. It's a jungle safari film in which a bunch of the dullest characters imaginable head into the jungle in search of a mythical white gorilla. The trouble is, this plotting plays out very slowly indeed, with a maximum of padding that makes it a tough watch. None of the characters stand out and the only people making an effort are the sound effects guys with their constant jungle ambience noises. As for White Pongo himself, he's just the usual guy in a gorilla suit you've seen a million times; he just happens to be a different colour.

sol (Some Spoilers) Escaping from his native captors Gunderson makes it to Sir Harry base-camp in the middle to gorilla territory deep in the Congo River Basin with a fantastic story that may well prove that Darwinism is a fact not a theory.It turns out that some five years ago Gunderson was a member of the Professor Fredrick Dierdorp expedition that vanished in the African jungle. As Sir Harry learns form the delirious and soon to be deceased Gunderson the expedition found a white gorilla who's, after being given a number of aptitude and IQ tests, intelligence rivals that of a human being! The trouble is that the gorilla, called Pongo, broke out of his cage and has been on the loose, terrorizing the local natives in the area, ever since!Seeing that this is likely to be the greatest discovery in anthropological history Sir Harry musters up an expedition, that includes his beautiful daughter Pam, to find and capture alive the fugitive wild monkey and thus prove that Darwin was right.***SPOILERS*** What Sir Harry doesn't realize is that his German guide Hans Kroegart has other ideas. Hans plans to have Sir Harry unwittingly take him, as a member of his expedition, deep into the uncharted Congo in order to find a hidden gold mine that he's been looking for some ten years. It's after reaching his goal Hans plans to murder Sir Harry & Co. just like he did some five years earlier to Dr. Fredrick Dierdorf team! It was also the ill fated Dierdorf expedition that Hans lead, as it's guide, into the very same area!With the exception of the excellent acting of Ray Carrigan-the guy in the monkey suite as the white gorilla-everything else about the film was nothing to write home about. We also had a meaningless love triangle in the movie involving Pam with expedition member Bishop and Carswell. That ironically lead the white gorilla, who had the hots for Pam, to let his guard down by coming out in the open and end up getting captured by the expedition team. Something that Sir Harry, in all his failed attempts to capture the big monkey, never expected to happen.

lastliberal This film appears to be a typical jungle safari film with lots of time spent floating down the river and traipsing through the jungle. There are some funny parts that keep it interesting.They are after a white gorilla, a supposed "missing link," that can think like a man. The gorilla is following them along as he is interested in the white woman (Maris Wrixon) with the group. Her father's secretary is also interested in her, but she has eyes for one of the riflemen on the safari.There is skulduggery afoot as some of the group appear to be more interested in finding treasure than the white gorilla and an eventual mutiny ensues, leaving five men behind and a search for treasure led by the native guide, Mumbo Jumbo (Joel Fluellen). I kid you not, that is his name.As expected, the white gorilla waits for a chance to grab the girl and take her back to his pad. But, instead of getting down to action, he waits and she escapes. When he catches her again, a black gorilla sees her and desires her too. They fight. She escapes again, and they capture the white gorilla to go back to London.Not so smart after all, was he?

Hitchcoc I'd swear that half of these B jungle movies has the people getting from one place to another. If they aren't paddling down a river, they are walking up a hill or across a field. Native tribesmen follow, single file, saying nothing, carrying supplies on their heads. This one is about an effort to find a white gorilla, a clue to the missing link. In the safari are a couple of factions as we find out. There's a rifle man, who is quiet and mysterious (we find out later what he really is), a young woman who is being pursued by a man who loves her, but who has no character. There is upper class snobbery. There is a group of cutthroat mutineers who wish to take power. Then there are scenes of out and out racism. The gorillas are, as usual, men in bad monkey suits. Even back in those days, couldn't they have put together something a little more convincing. One of my childhood memories is watching this movie on our old Admiral TV and seeing this long haired white ape. I may be wrong, but I think the ape suit shows up in other places, including an episode of the old George Reeves "Superman" TV show. This was another jungle movie that was part of a science fiction collection. I suppose the missing link is borderline science fiction. Overall, pretty lame.