NABONGA(1944)
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Pretty much a low budget King Kong, kinda!
A plane with an embezzler and his daughter
crashes in the jungle along with the fortune
that he stole! He disappears and she grows up
with an ape(Sampson)! Several people go looking
for the fortune and find the girl, the money
and the ape! C
From a reviewer at IMDb.com:
I've just watched Nabonga for the first
time and quite enjoyed it, despite its
rather low budget.
An aeroplane with a girl and her dad on
board plus the pilot crash lands in Africa
into a jungle. Her dad has some treasure
with him so he shoots the pilot and
disappears some years later, leaving his
daughter alone. But she has been "adopted"
by a gorilla, (a man in a monkey suit)
Nabonga, although she calls him Samson.
A small party, including Ray Gorman looking
for the treasure eventually finds it and
the girl and after Nabonga fights another
gorilla (another man in a monkey suit),
he kills somebody else who is also after
the treasure along with a woman. After
that, Gorman and the now grown up Doreen
plan to return to America.
The cast includes Buster Crabbe (Tarzan,
Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers), singer Julie
London and Barton MacLane (Unknown Island,
The Maltese Falcon).
This movie is certainly worth watching
if you get the chance. Great fun.
Rating: 3 stars out of 5. - chris_gaskin123
Buster Crabbe ... Ray Gorman
Fifi D'Orsay ... Marie
Barton MacLane ... Carl Hurst
Julie London ... Doreen Stockwell
Bryant Washburn ... Hunter
Herbert Rawlinson ... Stockwell
Prince Modupe ... Tobo
Jackie Newfield ... Doreen Stockwell - as a Child
Ray Corrigan ... Gorilla (as Nbongo)
Jack Gardner ... Pilot (uncredited)
Fred Humes ... Gorilla Fighting Samson the Gorilla (uncredited)
I. Stanford Jolley ... Policeman (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer ... Trader (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones ... Native Attacking Tobo (uncredited)
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