Congo Bill [Serial] (1948)
- Director(s):
- Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Carr, (more
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Yet another comic strip character -- Whitney Ellsworth's Congo Bill -- reached the screens in serial form courtesy of Columbia Pictures' penny-pinching Sam Katzman. But this intrepid jungle hero broke no new ground, to put it mildly. Played by a mustached Don McGuire -- a B-movie actor lacking somewhat in the charisma department -- Congo Bill again used the tired old plot about the search for a white Jungle Goddess, this time the possible heir to a 500,000-dollar trust fund. McGuire does manage to find the girl -- played by buxom Cleo Moore, who later gained fame in several exploitative film noirs of the 1950s -- but only after surviving attacks from a killer gorilla, an assortment of thugs, a runaway boulder, a shooting, and a stabbing, plus various other perils, none of them too exciting. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Armida - Zalea
- Fred Graham - Villabo
- I. Stanford Jolley - Bernie McGraw
- Cleo Moore - Lureen/Ruth Culver
- Leonard Penn - Andre Bocar
- Anthony Warde - Rogan
- Charles King - Kleeg
- Stephen Carr - Tom McGraw
- Jack Ingram - Cameron
- Nelson Leigh - Dr. Greenway
- Neyle Morrow - Kahla
- Hugh Prosser - Morelli
- Rusty Wescoatt - Ivan
- Don McGuire - Congo Bill
- Director(s):
- Thomas Carr, Spencer Gordon Bennet
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