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Kongo is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by William J. Cowen and starring Walter Huston, Lupe Vélez, Conrad Nagel, and Virginia Bruce. It is an adaptation of the 1926 Broadway play of the same name that starred Huston as well. The film is also a remake of the 1928 silent film West of Zanzibar, which was based too on the 1926 play.
Kongo: Directed by William J. Cowen. With Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce. This remake of West of Zanzibar (1928) made four years later tries to outdo the Lon Chaney original in morbidity. From a wheelchair a handicapped white man rules an area of Africa as a living god.
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- Drama, Horror
- William J. Cowen
- 1932-10-01
Set in the African jungles, Kongo offers an unsettling portrait of an embittered and deranged megalomaniac who vents his rage against his imagined enemies. Walter Huston (in a robust performance) plays Flint, a former magician who lost the use of his legs during a battle with his wife's lover, Gregg (C. Henry Gordon).
- William Cowen, Earl Taggart
- Walter Huston
Deep in the Zanzibar jungle, wheelchair-bound Flint (Walter Huston) rules over a native tribe with little other exposure to Europeans; his knowledge of hoary old vaudeville magic tricks leads them...
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- Walter Huston
- Will Cowan
- Horror
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In the heart of the Kongo! Overview. The ruthless Flint, a disabled man, rules an isolated region of Kongo like an omnipotent god, through superstition and sadism, living only for the day when he can get revenge on the man who ruined his life. William J. Cowen. Leon Gordon.
Kongo is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by William J. Cowen and starring Walter Huston, Lupe Vélez, Conrad Nagel, and Virginia Bruce. It is an adaptation of the 1926 Broadway play of the same name that starred Huston as well. The film is also a remake of the 1928 silent film West of Zanzibar, which was based too on the 1926 play.
