The Mighty Gorga (1969)

User Rating:

2.7/10   

Director:

David L. Hewitt

Writers:

David L. Hewitt (writer)
Jean Hewitt (writer)
(more)

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Tagline:

The Greatest Horror Monster Alive!

Plot:

A circus owner and a lady trapper trek into the African jungle to capture a giant gorilla for his circus. |

Plot Keywords:

Circus | Gorilla | Indian | Lava | Giant Ape

Cast

Anthony Eisley	...	Mark Remington
Megan Timothy	...	April Adams
Scott Brady	...	Dan Morgan
Kent Taylor	...	Tonga Jack Adams
Gary Kent	...	Arnold Shye
Greydon Clark
Sheldon Lee	...	Kabula (a guard)
Lee Parrish	...	George (guide)
John F. Parker
William Bonner
Bruce Kimball	...	The Witch Doctor / Mort (the clown)
Gary Graver	...	Bill (the zookeeper)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David L. Hewitt	...	Gorga (uncredited)

Directed by
David L. Hewitt

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
David L. Hewitt		writer (as David Prentiss)
Jean Hewitt		writer
Robert Vincent O'Neill		writer

Produced by
David L. Hewitt	....	producer
Robert Vincent O'Neill	....	producer

Cinematography by
Gary Graver

Film Editing by
Gary Graver

Makeup Department
Shelley	....	makeup artist

Production Management
Sheldon Lee	....	production manager

Sound Department
Dale Skillicorn	....	sound recordist

Special Effects by
David L. Hewitt	....	monster builder
David L. Hewitt	....	monster design
David L. Hewitt	....	special photographic effects

Music Department
Charles Walden	....	music supervisor

Distributors

• American General Pictures (1969) (USA) (theatrical)
• Western International (1970) (USA) (theatrical) (re-release)
• Cinema Concepts (1996) (USA) (VHS)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (1998) (USA) (VHS)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (2002) (USA) (DVD)
• Something Weird Video (SWV) (2002) (USA) (DVD) (special edition)
• Tropic Twilight (????) (USA) (VHS)
• World Beyond Video (????) (USA) (VHS)

Runtime:

USA:84 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:12 | USA:G

Filming Locations:

Bronson Canyon, Griffith Park - 4730 Crystal Springs Drive, Los Angeles, California, USA

Movie Connections:

Edited from La vendetta di Ercole (1960)

P.U. It Stinks So Good

What can you say about this fine film? My pals and I enjoy getting together a few Fridays a month and watching "bad" cinema - anything and everything - Turkish Star Wars rip-offs, Indonesian ghost movies, gory Vampire movies from Brazil, bad American biker movies. Well, after a long line of cheesy gorilla movies - Konga, Mighty Peking Man, etc. we have stumbled upon this....this....thing. The sound recoridng is so bad, which is a shame because you miss LOTS of bad dialogue. Plus the actors flub their lines constantly and keep on going. Obviously the budget for this 1969 epic must have been 100 bucks and some sandwiches, so it all looks like "we got one take and that' sit. Fine. Print. Lets move on." Horrible acting, there are literally NO special effects, just the worst big monkey outfit I have ever seen (the yes of the ape are just glass marbles,no blinking, no nothing). Now, the first twenty minutes of this film are very hard to take, but hang in there - once they get to the "jungle" (its filmed in Simi Valley, California and it looks it) and stumble the nest of a dinosuar, hold on - because it gets good. BAD good. The phoniest T-Rex you ever saw - in fact it lookslike someone holding up a PLASTIC dinosaur toy just in front of the camera lens and shaking it. Anyway - incredibly bad but oh so good. LOTS of laughs.