{"id":36009,"date":"2024-06-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36009"},"modified":"2024-06-16T20:59:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T00:59:19","slug":"kongo-1932-starring-walter-huston-lupe-velez-conrad-nagel-virginia-bruce-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36009","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kongo&#8221; (1932) starring Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel &amp; Virginia Bruce \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z061824zview_kongo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Kongo <\/i><\/b>(1932)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>William J. Cowen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Leon Gordon <\/strong>based on the play <em>Kongo<\/em> by <strong>Chester De Vonde, Kilbourn Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Walter Huston, Lupe Velez, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Bruce, C. Henry Gordon, Everett Brown <\/strong>and <strong>Forrester Harvey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>A MADMAN WREAKS HIS VENGEANCE on a woman&#8217;s soul! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deep in the Kongo jungle, a crippled white man called &#8220;Deadlegs&#8221; Flint (Huston) rules.\u00a0 Using stage magic to frighten the masses and a few natives (paying them in sugar cubes and booze) to keep the rest in line, Flint is seen as a god.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Flint wasn&#8217;t always in a wheelchair.\u00a0 That happened because the man his wife was cheating with crushed his spine in a fight.\u00a0 Now Flint hates the world and lives for the day when he will have the ultimate revenge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Soon, Flint&#8217;s vengeance, years in the making, will come to pass.\u00a0 Only a twist that no one sees coming will change everything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Kongo<\/em> is a remake of <em>West of Zanzibar<\/em> (1928) directed by Tod (<em>Dracula<\/em>) Browning and starring Lon (<em>The Phantom of the Opera<\/em>) Chaney.\u00a0 Some exterior footage from <em>West of Zanzibar<\/em> was re-used in<em> Kongo<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The film&#8217;s revenge storyline and the twist are made thanks to Kongo being a pre-code film.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Kongo <\/i><\/b>(1932) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z061824zview_kongo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kongo (1932) Director: William J. 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