Konga (1961 film)

Konga is a 1961 British-American horror science fiction film produced by Anglo Amalgamated. The movie was released to American theaters on May 3, 1961.
== Plot ==
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, named 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 ape and sends it to London to kill all of his enemies who have 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 that the doctor wants for himself.
After Konga strangles Bob Kenton to death, Decker attempts to make Sandra his own. This does not sit well with Margaret (Margo Johns), the botanist's assistant and current girlfriend, who attempts to get even by giving Konga an enormous amount of the strange serum and turns him into an enormous monster, although she becomes his first victim.
Just before going on a rampage, the super-sized ape grabs Decker in one of his enormous hands, while Sandra's arm is eaten by Decker's carnivorous plants. His rampage comes to a stop when he and Decker are killed by the British army. Upon his death, Konga changes back to a baby chimpanzee.
==Staff==
*Directed by John Lemont
*Written by Herman Cohen, Aben Kandel
*Produced by Herman Cohen, Nathan Cohen, Stuart Levy
*Music by Gerard Schurmann
*Cinematography by Desmond Dickinson
*Edited by Jack Slade
==Cast==
*Michael Gough as Dr. Charles Decker
*Margo Johns as Margaret
*Jess Conrad as Bob Kenton
*Claire Gordon as Sandra Banks
*Austin Trevor as Dean Foster
*Jack Watson as Superintendent Brown
*George Pastell as Professor Tagore
*Vanda Godsell as Bob's Mother
*Stanley Morgan as Inspector Lawson
*Grace Arnold as Miss Barnesdell
*Leonard Sachs as Bob's Father
*Nicholas Bennett as Daniel
*Kim Tracy as Mary
*Rupert Osborne as Eric Kenton
*Waveney Lee as Janet Kenton
*John Welsh as Commissioner Garland
*Paul Stockman as Konga (uncredited)
==Appearances==
===Monsters===
*Konga
*Carnivorous Plants
===Weapons, Vehicles, and Races===
==Gallery==
==Production==
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==Theatrical Releases==
*United States - January 1961
*United Kingdom - March 26, 1961
==Video Releases==
To Be Added
== Reboot ==
==References==