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4.3/10 • 19

1944-01-251h 11m

AdventureMysteryCrime

A WHITE GIRL RULES THE JUNGLE...HER STRENGTH OF POWER WAS "NABONGA!"

When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.

Directors
Sam Newfield
Editors
Holbrook N. Todd

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Buster Crabbe

    Buster Crabbe

    Ray Gorman

  2. Fifi D'Orsay

    Fifi D'Orsay

    Marie

  3. Barton MacLane

    Barton MacLane

    Carl Hurst

  4. Julie London

    Julie London

    Doreen Stockwell

  5. Bryant Washburn

    Bryant Washburn

    Hunter

  6. Herbert Rawlinson

    Herbert Rawlinson

    T.F. Stockwell

  7. Jackie Newfield

    Jackie Newfield

    Doreen Stockwell als Kind

  8. Ray Corrigan

    Ray Corrigan

    Nabonga der Gorilla

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CinemaSerf

Jun 30, 2022

5/10

This film has quite a sincere underlying message - conveying a remarkably (for the time) enlightened mid-WWII message on racial equality. It is just let down by the poor execution - not least from a dreadfully flat Buster Crabbe as "Ray" and the man in gorilla suit. When an hunter attempts to track down a case of jewels that were on a downed aircraft many years earlier over the dense African jungle, he discovers that they are now in the possession of Julie London - "Doreen" (aka "White Witch"), who is the daughter of the long dead thief. She's none to keen on surrendering her jewels and as he begins to fall for her, his friend Barton MacLane ("Carl) appears on the scene intent on securing the treasure for himself and the two men clash. It's odd to see Crabbe in a role where he isn't whiter than white, and for a while the story is quite engaging but all too quickly the effects of the sound-stage cheese plants and ropey lighting alongside a really prosaic script just draw more attention to "Crash" Corrigan - and his costume; never a good thing. It's not awful, and it's quite decently paced, but all just too predictably mundane to be memorable.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
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Revenue
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Keywords
africagorillawhite womanjungle girl