''Congo Bill'' (1948) is a

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based on the

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character Congo Bill, later named Congorilla.

Plot

A girl is about to inherit a fortune, but she is missing in Africa. Only then, family charges Congo Bill, an adventurer, to find her, and bring her back to civilization. He follows a legend about a mysterious White Queen, but his path is full of difficulties, by an inhospitable jungle, and the man who will lose the fortune if the girl is found alive...

Cast

* Don McGuire as Congo Bill, famed

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and animal trainer * Cleo Moore as Queen Lureen / Ruth Culver, white ruler of a forbidden valley in Africa and the missing heiress to the Culver fortune * Jack Ingram as Cameron, mysterious trader * I. Stanford Jolley as Bernie McGraw, villainous trustee of the Culver fortune * Leonard Penn as Andre Bocar, owner of the seedy African bar The Green Parrot Inn, in Bernie McGraw's pay and working for his own ends *

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as Dr Greenway * Charles King as Kleeg, employee of Andre Bocar in The Green Parrot Inn * Armida Vendrell as Zalea *

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as Morelli *

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as Kahla * Fred Graham as Villabo * Rusty Wescoatt as Ivan * Anthony Warde as Rogan * Stephen Carr as Tom McGraw, murdered brother of Bernie McGraw and trustee of the Culver fortune * William Fawcett as Blinky *

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as Narrator *

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as Frank, cafe clerk * Eddie Parker as torturer * Stanley Price as Nagu's friend

Crew

* Directors: Thomas Carr,

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* Producer:

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* Cinematographer:

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* Art Director: Paul Palmentola * Editors: Earl Turner, Dwight Caldwell * Sound mixer: Josh Westmoreland

Chapter titles

# The Untamed Beast # Jungle Gold # A Hot Reception # Congo Bill Springs a Trap # White Shadows in the Jungle # The White Queen # Black Panther # Sinister Schemes # The Witch Doctor Strikes # Trail of Treachery # A Desperate Chance # The Lair of the Beast # Menace of the Jungle # Treasure Trap # The Missing Letter _Source:

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