Movie Review: Congo Crossing (U.S., 1956)


Figure 1.--Louise Whitman (Virginia Mayo), fleeing an unjust French murder charge, ends up David Carr's jungle mission. Hereshe speaks with a boy at the mission. His outfit is unlike anything we have actually noted in Africa. Thge boy is presumably an American child actor. Hefty Aftican boys were mot all that common.

This is a sort of gangster film, but with an African setting eather than Chicago or New York. It is set in the ficticious country of Congotanga. At the time European colonies were beginning to grant independence to African colonies, but most of the continent was still under European rule. Even so, the film depicts an African country with no extradition laws which sounds more like a Latin American country. The government is dominated by motely crew of international gangsters, headed by the notorious Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Europe arrives with beauriful Louise Whitman (Virginia Mayo), fleeing an unjust French murder charge, Mannering, also on the plane, pays resident hit man O'Connell to kill her. The two and the hero of the story, David Carr, find themselves at Carr's jungle mission where he is surveying the Congotanga border. Africans are only bit players. One African boy makes friends with Whitman. The costuming seems pure Hollywood.






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