KONGA [IMPORT]

Details

• Release Year: 1961
• Genre: Horror, Science-Fiction
• Plot: Lost in the African jungles for over a year, Dr. Charles Decker (Michael Gough, Horror Hospital) has returned to England with Konga, a baby chimpanzee. Disappearing into his lab, the mad botanist begins work on what he believes will be his greatest achievement. Having witnessed a Baganda witchdoctor’s use of a rare carnivorous plant to produce accelerated animal growth, Decker injects Konga with the same serum. Using the gorilla-sized chimp to brutally murder his enemies, Decker himself soon becomes victim to Konga’s uncontrollable rage. Grabbing the scientist, the berserk chimp - who’s grown to monstrous size - breaks out of the lab and rampages through London, a city’s whose salvation rests with the military, who’s been ordered to destroy Konga at all cost.
• Cast: Michael Gough, Margo Johns, Jess Conrad, Claire Gordon, Austin Trevor, Jack Watson, George Pastell, Vanda Godsell, Stanley Morgan, Grace Arnold, Leonard Sachs, Nicholas Bennett, Kim Tracy, Rupert Osborne, Waveney Lee, John Welsh, Steven Berkoff, Herman Cohen, Iain Gregory, John Lemont
• Director: John Lemont
• Runtime: 1:30
• Company: MGM / UA
• Media Format: Movie