Back in the day of these movies, the costumes were never one and done. Ray “Crash” Corrigan was an experienced gorilla man and played a similar role earlier that year in The White Gorilla, where he was both the jungle explorer and the gorilla. This costume was years later brought out of storage for  Jerry Warren’s 1956 movie Man Beast. Corrigan also played apes in Tarzan the Ape Man, Tarzan and His Mate, the Flash Gordon serial, Three Missing Links, Murder in the Private Car, Hollywood Party, Round Up Time In Texas, The Ape, Three Texas Steers, Dizzy Detectives, Dr. Renault’s Secret, The Monster Maker, The Hairy Ape, Miraculous Journey, Crime On My Hands, The Lost Tribe, Zamba, Forbidden Jungle, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla, The Strange Case of Doctor Rx, Captive Wild Woman, Nabonga and Unknown Island. Corrigan was also It in It! The Terror from Beyond Space.

He sold the suits to Steve Calvert, a Ciro’s bartender, who like him rarely asked for screen credit. But he was making money. Corrigan was on a hunting trip with Clark Gable when he decided to buy some land that he called Corriganville. That was used to shoot movies and as a tourist attraction. Corriganville was eventually sold to Bob Hope in 1966, becoming Hopetown, but is now known as Corriganville Park.

Anyways, White Pongo.

In the Belgian Congo, natives dance around the fire and plan on killing Gunderson, who is freed by an attack by an albino gorilla named White Pongo and an elderly scientist who sends him with a diary all about the gorilla into the jungle. As you can imagine, the goal is to bring this supposed missing link back to civilization which is never a good idea.

Director Sam Newfield made hundreds of movies, such as The Terror of Tiny Town, Fight That Ghost and I Accuse My Parents. It was written by Raymond L. Schrock, who wrote the Lon Chaney The Phantom of the Opera.