British East Africa, USA, 1930
85m
25mm film, black and white (part tinted), 1.20:1(sound on film version), 1.37:1 (sound on disc version)
mono (Powers Cinephone Sound System), English
A British East African/American horror film directed by William S. Campbell. The producers used footage from earlier ethnographic films without permission and were sued by Byron P. Mackenzie whose mother Lady Grace Mackenzie shot some pf the “borrowed” material.
Plot Summary
A British explorer, Sir Hubert Winstead, leads an expedition into the Belgian Congo where they encounter a tribe of gorilla-worshipping women who are held as sex slaves by the apes.
Credits
Crew
Supervised and Assembled by: William S. Campbell
Copyrighted Congo Pictures, Ltd, Mombasa, B.E. Africa and New York City
Congo Pictures Ltd. presents
Screen Adaptation by: Adam Hull Shirk
Cinematograph Corps: Ed. Joyce, Fred Webster, L. Gillingham
Edited by: Grace McKee
Musical Score by: Edward Gage
References
Periodicals
- Film History vol.6 no.3 (Autumn 1994) pp.314-339 – illustrated article ( White Heroines and Hearts of Darkness: Race, Gender and Disguise in 1930s Jungle Films by by Rhonda J. Bernestein)
Books
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.191
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.217
- RKO Radio Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1929-1956 by Michael R. Pitts pp.152-155
- Sound Films, 1927-1939: A United States Filmography by Alan G. Fetrow p.311
