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.
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Title: Nabonga (1944)
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| Complete credited cast: | |||
| Buster Crabbe | ... | Ray Gorman | |
| Fifi D'Orsay | ... | Marie | |
| Barton MacLane | ... | Carl Hurst | |
| Julie London | ... | Doreen Stockwell | |
| Bryant Washburn | ... | Hunter | |
| Herbert Rawlinson | ... | Stockwell | |
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Prince Modupe | ... | Tobo |
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Jackie Newfield | ... | Doreen Stockwell - as a Child |
| Ray Corrigan | ... | Gorilla (as Nbongo) | |
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In an effort to clear the name of his deceased father, young Ray Gorman travels to darkest Africa to try to track down the money embezzled from his father's bank years earlier. After a long trek through the jungle Gorman finds the money in the care of beautiful 'white witch' Doreen, daughter of the now long-dead embezzler. Gorman finds his goal difficult to accomplish as not only does Doreen, guarded by a huge, ferocious gorilla, not want to give up the money, but greedy guide Carl Hurst has followed Gorman's trail, intent on getting the money himself by any means necessary. Written by Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
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gorilla | jungle | jungle girl | father son relationship | father daughter relationship |Taglines:
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25 January 1944 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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1.37 : 1
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Policeman: Mr. Stockwell, open up, it's the police. Open up the door or we'll break it in!
[the policeman batter down the door and search the apartment]
Policeman: Well, he's gone. Some little girl's going to have a broken heart when she discovers her doll was left behind.
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The earliest documented telecast of this film in the New York City area was Wednesday 1 November 1950 on WABD (Channel 5). See more »Quotes
[first lines]Policeman: Mr. Stockwell, open up, it's the police. Open up the door or we'll break it in!
[the policeman batter down the door and search the apartment]
Policeman: Well, he's gone. Some little girl's going to have a broken heart when she discovers her doll was left behind.
See more »
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Well, I bought this gem for a fiver out of the blue. I thought: "Buster Crabbe is in it, so it can't be all bad!" Then I watched it in the German dubbing, and had to laugh quite a few times, but at spots neither the original movie makers nor the dubbing crew would have intended to be for laughter. The German dubbing sounds like from a bad porn movie. Really. The lines of the native people are just ridiculous, and the voice of the girls sounds like the voice of a 60 year old woman. Its crap! They even attached new music to it. Somekind of psychedelic syntho-pop, but a really bad one. So I switched over to the original soundtrack, and so I could finally enjoy this movie. Buster Crabbe is like usual awesome in action scenes, but his character play too is definitely better than in any Flash Gordon. I recommend this movie (in English!!!!) for anyone who is interested in fantastic movies from before the fifties. But its not King Kong tho! Therefore: 5 out of 10