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      • King of the Congo is a 1952 American 15 chapter movie serial, the 48th released by Columbia Pictures. It was produced by Sam Katzman, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Wallace Grissell, and stars Buster Crabbe. The serial also co-stars Gloria Dea, Leonard Penn, Jack Ingram, Rick Vallin, Nick Stuart, William Fawcett, and Rusty Wescoatt. King of the Congo was based on the comic book character "Thun'da", created by Frank Frazetta, and published by Magazine Enterprises.
      King of the Congo centers around a U.S. Air Force captain and his quest to find missing microfilm containing information vital to the United States government. His journey takes him across the Atlantic all the way to a jungle in Africa.


      Plot


      Captain Roger Drum (Buster Crabbe) shoots down an enemy plane carrying microfilm while on its way to Africa to deliver it to an enemy of America. Intent on revealing this subversive group for whom the microfilm's message is intended, Drum assumes the enemy pilot's identity. He flies his twin-engine aircraft across the Atlantic, where he is forced to crash it in a remote African jungle. Drum is rescued by the all- female Rock People, led by Princess Pha. He is renamed Thunda, King of the Congo, after he repeatedly rings a temple gong using a large stone mallet, sounding the alarm to an attack by the primitive, all-male Cave Men. With the subversives believing Thunda is their missing pilot, and with the Rock People under constant attack from the Cave Men, Captain Drum plots to bring down the subversives who are searching for a new metal more radioactive and powerful than Uranium. At the serial's conclusion, Thunda (Drum) clears the jungle of America's enemy and is able to reunite, as one tribe, the all-female Rock People and all-male Cave Men.


      Cast




      Chapter titles


      Mission of Menace
      Red Shadows in the Jungle
      Into the Valley of Mist
      Thunda Meets His Match
      Thunda Turns the Tables
      Thunda's Desperate Charge
      Thunda Trapped
      Mission of Evil
      Menace of the Magnetic Rocks
      Lair of the Leopard
      An Ally from the Sky
      Riding Wild
      Red Raiders
      Savage Vengeance
      Judgment of the Jungle
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      Production


      King of the Congo was both the last Tarzan-style serial made and last serial to star Buster Crabbe. Crabbe starred in nine serials between 1933 and 1952:

      Tarzan the Fearless (1933) as Tarzan
      Flash Gordon (1936) as Flash Gordon
      Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938) as Flash Gordon
      Red Barry (1938) as Red Barry
      Buck Rogers (1939) as Buck Rogers
      Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) as Flash Gordon
      The Sea Hound (1947) as Captain Silver
      Pirates of the High Seas (1950) as Jeff Drake
      King of the Congo (1952) as Captain Roger Drum and "Thunda"


      Filming locations


      Iverson Movie Ranch, Chatsworth, Los Angeles.


      See also


      List of film serials by year
      List of film serials by studio


      References




      External links


      Buster Crabbe filmography
      BFI - Film & TV database
      King of the Congo at IMDb
      ‹The template AllMovie title is being considered for deletion.› King of the Congo at AllMovie

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