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Konga

  • 1961
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  • 1h 30m
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Konga (1961)
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Dr. Decker comes back from Africa. During one year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee and he decides to use his chimp, ... Read allDr. Decker comes back from Africa. During one year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee and he decides to use his chimp, Konga, to get rid of them.Dr. Decker comes back from Africa. During one year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee and he decides to use his chimp, Konga, to get rid of them.

  • Director
    • John Lemont
  • Writers
    • Aben Kandel
    • Herman Cohen
  • Stars
    • Michael Gough
    • Margo Johns
    • Jess Conrad
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    • Director
      • John Lemont
    • Writers
      • Aben Kandel
      • Herman Cohen
    • Stars
      • Michael Gough
      • Margo Johns
      • Jess Conrad
    • 77User reviews
    • 56Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Michael Gough
    Michael Gough
    • Dr. Charles Decker
    Margo Johns
    • Margaret
    Jess Conrad
    Jess Conrad
    • Bob Kenton
    Claire Gordon
    Claire Gordon
    • Sandra Banks
    Austin Trevor
    Austin Trevor
    • Dean Foster
    Jack Watson
    Jack Watson
    • Superintendent Brown
    George Pastell
    George Pastell
    • Professor Tagore
    Vanda Godsell
    Vanda Godsell
    • Bob's Mother
    Stanley Morgan
    Stanley Morgan
    • Inspector Lawson
    Grace Arnold
    Grace Arnold
    • Miss Barnesdell
    Leonard Sachs
    Leonard Sachs
    • Bob's Father
    Nicholas Bennett
    • Daniel
    Kim Tracy
    • Mary
    Rupert Osborne
    • Eric
    Waveney Lee
    • Janet
    John Welsh
    John Welsh
    • Commissioner Garland
    Bruce Beeby
    • Detective Redmond
    • (uncredited)
    Steven Berkoff
    Steven Berkoff
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    • Director
      • John Lemont
    • Writers
      • Aben Kandel
      • Herman Cohen
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    1clydestuff

    Curious George Gets A Make-Over

    ***Plot Points Ahead, or my interpretation of those plot points***

    What can you say about a cute funny little chimpanzee who grows up to be a not so funny giant Gorilla? That he was once young and beautiful? That he loved bananas? That he once played carefree in the jungle, only to journey to England to become the star of his own feature film? That they surrounded him with some of the worst over- acting ever to grace a horror film? That his toy doll people were not much fun to play with? That he had to die to be returned to his former lovable monkey self? Oh the horror of it all!

    For most of this film, when the wicked Dr. Decker, played with a giant side order of ham by Michael Gough, injects that poor Chimpanzee with his nasty super grow essence of hulk formula, it is just plain stupid, boring, ridiculous, and dumb. Apparently the good Doctor also sees the new formula as sort of a viagra type grow drug, because he suddenly gets the hots for a young college student. He's got it bad, really bad, so much so that he sends Konga out to kill a young male college student who has the hots for the same gal. And that guy didn't even have any of the drug. When the doctor's female assistant who apparently has the hots for the good doctor also, (guess she sees him making good use of the drug also) finds out about all this nonsense, she overdoses poor Konga with this super steroid, thinking Konga will rip the good doctor and/or the college girl to shreds. Instead she only manages in getting herself killed, and letting a gigantic Konga loose on London and an unsuspecting movie going public. Konga has a little jealousy streak of his own, does away with the college girl, then carries the good Dr. through London. At First, all the people run hurriedly away, but eventually they reach the end of the studio back lot and can't go any further, so they stop to gawk and stare. At this point, Konga realizes he doesn't have the good doctor in his hand after all, but a wooden doll, so angrily he throws the doll to the ground, which must have been under some kind of magic spell because it suddenly turns back into the now very dead doctor. Unfortunately for Konga, the movie has reached it's budget limit, so unable to tear down any buildings or step on any gawking spectators, the police show up and fire one million shots at him, none of them actually hitting him. This is all too much for the poor Konga, who drops dead of a heart attack and shrinks back to the innocent chimpanzee he was at the beginning. I'm not sure how they shrunk the man in the ape suit but I think he died and shrunk into a dead chimpanzee suit because the fellow is nowhere to be found. Shakespeare should have written such a tragedy.

    Till Next Time With tongue held firmly in cheek Next Class Please
    7telegonus

    A Konga Line

    I very much enjoyed Konga when I first saw it in a theatre at about the age of nine, and surprisingly enjoyed it almost as much on television. The plot is the standard issue mad scientist who comes up with a growth serum that makes a creature large which then goes on a rampage formula, set in England this time. The creature here is an ape who just happens to be called Konga (hint..hint), which gives one a sense of the degree of subtlety in the film.

    If one can call scenery chewing magisterial I think it's fair to say that Michael Gough, as the mad scientist in this one, does it with an authority worthy of at the very least a knighthood, if not a lordship. The special effects are, alas, dreadful even for a modestly budgeted film such as this, but no matter. Gough is the whole show, and his performance is of such profligacy as to bring a round of applause from Messrs. Zucco and Atwill, were they still with us.
    pace-1

    Man that MICHAEL GOUGH !!!

    When I was a kid Famous Monsters of Filmland touted KONGA as the new King Kong so I layed down my 35 cent sat in the air conditioned comfort of the local theater where you got two movie's and normally a couple cartoons thrown in for good measure. Got thru the first film it could of been Attack of the giant leeches since A.I.P like to re release films to go as a second to save money it was good but I'd seen it a couple years before at the same theatre. Well Konga sure wasn't any King Kong by any stretch of the imagination Hell the only Jungle we get too see is fleeting and is in the very beginning but I think we all knew as kids who loved giant monsters, small monsters, robots,etc. and we always wanted to believe the studios and their posters that this time they would really spend some money on the effects and they would be great!!!and the creature would be fantastic and......... Well you know. No what I liked about the movie was Michael Goughs over the top performance as the Mad Scientist like the mad man of letters in Horrors of the Black Museum or the uptight landlord that yearns for a young female tenet in the Boys from Brazil. Hes always wonderful and makes these performance's his own. And if people only remember him from Batman thats.....somewhat a pity. Id have liked Konga for Gough's performance alone but the lurid plot, the not tooo bad effects didn't hurt ( I knew they wasn't going to be any animation) while its no great film its fun and sometimes thats enough...........
    Sargebri

    Poverty Row King Kong

    Even though the story is fairly interesting, I can't help but look at this film as a cheap rip off of the classic King Kong. Michael Gough does a decent job playing the crazed Doctor Decker who wants to eliminate everyone who he feels has wronged him. He also is obsessed with one of his young, voluptuous students. His obsessions lead him to the breaking point and this helps to make this a fairly interesting story. Too bad it is undone by the horrible effects, especially the old "man in the cheap gorilla suit" gimmick. I guess the budget didn't allow for decent effects like stop motion animation. However, despite cheapness of it, this film will always remain a guilty pleasure of mine.
    8grey_hipster

    Great hammy performance by Michael Gough

    Konga scared the hell out of me when I saw it on TV at age eight! I had nightmares for several weeks... I've seen Konga since then as an adult and Michael Gough's over-the-top performance makes the film. Plus there's a very attractive English "blonde in distress" who comes to a gruesome end. An "8."

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    • Trivia
      The film's producer, Herman Cohen, first considered using "ape" actor Steve Calvert, who had previously worked with Cohen on the films Bride of the Gorilla (1951) and Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952), but Calvert had long since retired from performing in his gorilla suit. Cohen turned to another renowned "ape" actor, George Barrows, but he only hired Barrows' gorilla suit, not Barrows himself. The actor Paul Stockman was instead chosen, based primarily on his being a good fit for Barrows' suit. Barrows was understandably annoyed when his gorilla suit was returned to him from England in horrible shape.
    • Goofs
      There is no explanation given at all as to what actually happened to Sandra Banks (Claire Gordon) toward the end of the film. She is last seen being distressed after accidentally getting her lower arm trapped in one of the huge mutated Venus fly traps, but then she disappears from the film completely after that! Surely it is ridiculous to suggest that she was eaten alive and whole in this manner. All she would have suffered at best was a small wound on her lower arm, and this resolution should have been seen and shown as such.
    • Quotes

      Margaret: [to Dr. Decker over breakfast] What are you having with your poached egg? Murder?

    • Connections
      Featured in Chiller Theatre: Konga (1974)
    • Soundtracks
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      Music by Robert Schumann

      Arranged by Gerard Schurmann

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    • Release date
      • October 10, 1962 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Panique sur Londres
    • Filming locations
      • Croydon, London, England, UK(high street climax)
    • Production companies
      • Alta Vista Productions
      • Anglo-Amalgamated Productions
      • Herman Cohen Productions
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    • Budget
      • $500,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 30m(90 min)
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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