Nabonga

1944

AdventureMysteryCrime

When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.

"A WHITE GIRL RULES THE JUNGLE...HER STRENGTH OF POWER WAS "NABONGA!""

Rating

4.263
19 votes

Popularity

0.3218

Origin & Countries

US | en | United States of America

Production

PRC

Runtime

71 min.

Status

Released

Release: 1/25/1944

Credits

Nabonga

Sam NewfieldDirector

Nabonga

Buster CrabbeRay Gorman

Nabonga

Fifi D'OrsayMarie

Nabonga

Barton MacLaneCarl Hurst

Nabonga

Julie LondonDoreen Stockwell

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

6/30/2022

5 / 10

This film has quite a sincere underlying message - conveying a remarkably (for the time) enlightened mid-WWII message on racial equality. It is just let down by the poor execution - not least from a dreadfully flat Buster Crabbe as "Ray" and the man in gorilla suit. When an hunter attempts to track down a case of jewels that were on a downed aircraft many years earlier over the dense African jungle, he discovers that they are now in the possession of Julie London - "Doreen" (aka "White Witch"), who is the daughter of the long dead thief. She's none to keen on surrendering her jewels and as he begins to fall for her, his friend Barton MacLane ("Carl) appears on the scene intent on securing the treasure for himself and the two men clash. It's odd to see Crabbe in a role where he isn't whiter than white, and for a while the story is quite engaging but all too quickly the effects of the sound-stage cheese plants and ropey lighting alongside a really prosaic script just draw more attention to "Crash" Corrigan - and his costume; never a good thing. It's not awful, and it's quite decently paced, but all just too predictably mundane to be memorable.

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