In the 1930s and '40s, both independent companies and major studios frequently (and economically) made new movies out of the highlights of old, often with extreme ingenuity in designing new scenes to match material shot up to twenty-five years earlier! The White Gorilla is the pièce de résistance of this genre. Virtually all of the action is taken from a silent serial, Perils of the Jungle, and the "script" is positively ingenious in keeping the new actors from ever meeting the old-although they spy on them constantly through the underbrush, making this possibly the screen's first voyeuristic jungle adventure. The dialogue is a joy, as are the different "interpretations" given to the same tatty animal stock shots, and I won't spoil your fun by quoting any of the deathless lines. --William K. Everson