This film is made up of two parts, some travel footage of someone who toured Africa and took a lot of wildlife footage and tribal ceremonies, and the live action scenes with some white folks travelling through the jungle trying to find a group of gorillas that kidnap women.
Because a large portion of the tourist footage contained women with naked breasts, they also hired some African-American actresses to go topless with some guys in truly bad gorilla costumes, giving the movie just the hint of bestiality without outright saying it.
The movie runs for an hour and six minutes, but it seems like an very uncomfortable eternity, realizing this is how people actually saw Africa in the 1950's. Given the high number of naked breasts, I find it hard to believe this film was ever shown in mainstream theaters at the time, more likely to have been shown in exploitation tent shows..
I just imagine the poor doctor who took the tourist video seeing the finished product and being horrified.
At the end of the movie, all the characters we've been following are killed, so I'm not sure who was actually narrating this.
Because a large portion of the tourist footage contained women with naked breasts, they also hired some African-American actresses to go topless with some guys in truly bad gorilla costumes, giving the movie just the hint of bestiality without outright saying it.
The movie runs for an hour and six minutes, but it seems like an very uncomfortable eternity, realizing this is how people actually saw Africa in the 1950's. Given the high number of naked breasts, I find it hard to believe this film was ever shown in mainstream theaters at the time, more likely to have been shown in exploitation tent shows..
I just imagine the poor doctor who took the tourist video seeing the finished product and being horrified.
At the end of the movie, all the characters we've been following are killed, so I'm not sure who was actually narrating this.