The White Gorilla is a 1945 American film written and directed by Harry L. Fraser and starring Ray Corrigan, Lorraine Miller, and George J. Lewis.
As he forms a unique bond with the majestic creature, Ruth, an ambitious journalist, becomes determined to uncover the mystery behind Collins's groundbreaking discovery.
True to the Weiss tradition of cutting costs, most of the action was taken from Fraser's 1927 silent serial Perils of the Jungle, starring silent-screen Tarzan Frank Merrill.
Unlike most Hollywood jungle pictures of the 1940s, which use occasional vintage stock shots of wild animals to add atmosphere, The White Gorilla devotes fully half of the feature's running time to the vintage-1927 footage, with music and sound effects added.
[4]) The half-hour of new material, with Corrigan playing both the leading role and the white gorilla, was filmed in four days in a trading-post interior and a standing jungle set, with a small cast of six actors.