Congo Crossing | |
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Directed by | Joseph Pevney |
Produced by | Howard Christie |
Written by |
Houston Branch (story) Richard Alan Simmons (writer) |
Starring |
Virginia Mayo George Nader |
Cinematography | Russell Metty |
Edited by | Sherman Todd |
Production
company |
Universal Pictures
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date
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July, 1956 |
Running time
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85 mins. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Congo Crossing is a 1956 adventure film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Virginia Mayo and George Nader. Most of the exterior sequences were shot in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden.
Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner (Tonio Selwart). The latest plane from Europe carries Louise Whitman (Virginia Mayo), (fleeing a French murder charge), and Mannering (Raymond Bailey), who pays resident hit man O'Connell (Michael Pate) to kill her. Through a chain of circumstances Louise, O'Connell, and heroic surveyor David Carr (George Nader) end up alone in the jungle on Carr's mission to determine the true border of Congotanga... in which Rittner is keenly interested.