Konga (film)
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Original film poster by Reynold Brown
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| Directed by | John Lemont |
| Produced by |
Herman Cohen Nathan Cohen Stuart Levy |
| Written by | Herman Cohen Aben Kandel |
| Starring |
Michael Gough Margo Johns Jess Conrad Claire Gordon |
| Music by | Gerard Schurmann |
| Cinematography | Desmond Dickinson |
| Edited by | Jack Slade |
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Production
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| Distributed by |
Anglo Amalgamated (Eastern hemisphere) American International Pictures (Western hemisphere) |
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Release date
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January 1961 |
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Running time
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90 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Konga | |
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Konga battles "The Creature from Uuang-Ni". From issue #23 of the Konga comic published by Charlton Comics.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Charlton Comics |
| Schedule | Bimonthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
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| Publication date |
vol. 1: June 1960 – Nov. 1965 Konga's Return: Jan. 1962 Konga's Revenge Vol. 1: Summer 1963 - Fall 1964 Konga's Revenge Vol. 2: 1968 |
| Number of issues |
vol. 1: 23 Konga's Return: 1 Konga's Revenge Vol. 1: 2 Konga's Revenge Vol. 2: 1 |
| Main character(s) | Konga |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Joe Gill |
| Artist(s) |
Steve Ditko Dick Giordano Rocco Mastroserio |
Konga is a 1961 British/American international co-production science fiction horror film directed by John Lemont and starring Michael Gough, Margo Johns and Austin Trevor. It was shot at Merton Park Studios and in Croydon for Anglo Amalgamated then distributed in the United States by American International Pictures (AIP) as a double feature with Master of the World. Anglo Amalgamated and AIP each provided half the funding for the US$500,000 film with each studio receiving distribution rights in their respective hemispheres.
Konga was the basis for a comic-book series published by Charlton Comics and initially drawn by Steve Ditko (prior to Ditko's co-creation of Spider-Man) in the 1960s.
British botanist Dr. Charles Decker (Michael Gough) comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee, Konga, to test out his theory. Decker goes insane after he discovers a serum that turns his chimpanzee subject into a ferocious gorilla-sized ape. To further his hideous experiments, he mesmerizes the chimp and sends it to London to kill all his enemies who want more credit in the scientific community than he already has. Among his targets is Dean Foster (Austin Trevor) Professor Tagore (George Pastell) and Bob Kenton (Jess Conrad), the lover of Sandra Banks (Claire Gordon), the woman the doctor wants for himself.
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