''Congo Maisie'' is a 1940 comedy-drama film directed by H. C. Potter and starring

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for the second time in the ten film Maisie series as showgirl Maisie Ravier.

Plot

Maisie hides aboard a West African steamer after she discovers that she cannot pay her hotel tab. She needs to get to

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but the boat takes her upriver instead. She winds up in a hospital on a rubber plantation, which she must save from a native attack.

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* * * 1940 films 1940 comedy-drama films American comedy-drama films 1940s English-language films Films directed by H. C. Potter Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Films set in Belgian Congo American black-and-white films Films scored by Edward Ward (composer) 1940s American films English-language comedy-drama films {{1940s-US-comedy-film-stub