A serial from the 50s!!!

PANTHER GIRL OF THE KONGO SERIAL(1955)

The basic story is about a giant something
that's menacing the local village of the
gal known as - wait for it - Panther Girl!
I know, shock! The hero, PG, is played by
none other than Phillis Coates(Lois Lane
in the Adventures of Superman, Superman
And The Mole Men) and does a great job
here! Along with the monster there's a
group of men trying to get the rights
to hunt in the jungle and will do anything
to get those rights! B

From IMDb.com:

Despite the title, this is a guy show more
than anything else, if I remember correctly,
Panther Girl is the only girl in it, all the
other characters, or cartoon figures, are male.
There is no characterisation in the whole run
of the serial, every word is spoken to advance
the story, only in the final frame of the last
chapter does someone make a jaw-dropping bit
of non-plot driven talk. But that is not a
negative comment on this serial.

I actually like the no non-sense way this
serial, and other serials, present themselves
(Irwin Allen's The Time Tunnel would later
copy this all the way).

The claw monster in this serial was created
by the Lydecker brothers, and one of the
Lydeckers - Howard - would be associated
(with LB Abbott) in the effects for TV's
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea...a series
that featured many miniature and full
scale monsters, with or without a claw.

Panther Girl is a fine serial, and when
seen in full on video in 1997 it was a
knockout, but beware of repeat viewings,
for some reason this serial does not go
over too well when you look too close. - StuOz