Love Life of a Gorilla (1937)

This littleseen compilation educational documentary from producer Samuel Cummins was an independentlyproduced jungle exploitation film typical of the 30s It was inspired after the success of the preCode exploitation film Ingagi 1931 about gorillaworshipping Congolese native women and after the success of RKOs King Kong 1933 The film speculated that there was socialsexual intercourse or matings between African women and gorillas after a Ubangi maiden was abducted by a gorilla and carried off into the jungle It was considered scandalous and offcolor by the Board of Review because of the theme of the mating of women with wild animals and because of nude figures in the picture The film included sensational content ineptly interspersed with horrible stock footage including a few shots of topless native women censored versions superimposed fake ferns over bare breasts and lusty gorillas men in monkey suits filmsiteorg