The White Gorilla/Bela Lugosi Meets A Brooklyn Gorilla: More dollar DVD goodness from PC Treasures. This Target find features what can best be describe, as my Dad put it, a unique film. I had a better term for it: CRAP!

The White Gorilla has Ray "Crash" Corrigan starring in a film which is essentially a narrated silent film. When Crash tells the story of what happened to him, he basically makes it appear that he was a coward who watched the hero rescue the girl time and time again. This was because clips of him peeking out of a bush were clumsily edited into stock footage from a 1927 serial Perils of the Jungle. Despite 18 years between the two films the people who made White Gorilla thought we wouldn't notice or care, I suppose.

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla is another story. That film is a blast! Too bad the print on this DVD is unwatchable. Pick up the Alpha Video release like I have or the Digiview release which my brother bought for $1 and enjoys quite a bit. An interesting bit of trivia has this film under the name "The Boys from Brooklyn" so if you collect different prints of Public Domain films, there you go.

Sadly, I have absolutely no reason to recommend this disc at all. Save your dollar or buy some Snickers bars or something.

Labels: Bad Movies, Cheap DVDs, Dollar DVD