The Horror!? 28: White Pongo (1945)

The jungle adventure movie genre is one I haven't been able to warm. White Pongo certainly won't change that. In fact it incorporates everything that irritates me about jungle movies. So it features casual and not so casual racism (a head porter called Mumbo Jumbo!?), a script without a single clue about Africa, minutes and minutes and minutes of stock animal footage. Oh, and not much adventure of course. In addition to the stock animal footage the film also grants us minutes and minutes and minutes of men in bad gorilla suits making really strange noises and (like the actors not in gorilla suits) doing not much of interest and further minutes and minutes and minutes of White Pongo, the "missing link", a man in a white gorilla suit, staring and staring and staring at the expedition that is supposed to catch him.
But viewer beware! There is (kind of) something happening in the last few minutes, which at this point in the film looks like the most thrilling thing you have ever seen. I nearly woke up!
Of course I can not and will not spoil these incredible action packed final moments. Whoever makes it this far into White Pongo deserves at least the little the film has to offer unspoiled.