Shot in three days and one night.
Ray Corrigan, a Western actor, was an experienced "gorilla man," and played a similar role earlier that year in The White Gorilla, where he starred both as a jungle explorer and as the gorilla. The White Pongo costume was years later brought out of storage to be used as the monster suit in Jerry Warren's 1956 Abominable Snowman movie, Man Beast.[1]
Ray Corrigan was one of the best of the Hollywood "Gorilla Men" who worked in all the B flicks and comedies playing apes and gorillas. Corrigan owned his own suits and worked as a gorilla man early in his career, starting with 1932's Tarzan the Ape Man with Johnny Weissmuller. He was among the best. When he finally retired from stunt work and the gorillas in 1948, he sold his suits to Steve Calvert. His suits lived on longer than he did.
Extensive use of archive footage from Perils of the Jungle (1927) is used for dramatic purposes but with unintentionally funny results.