Konga









Konga (1961)
AIP Production #603
Jeff and Cheryl study Dr. Charles Decker’s scientifically impossible animal mutations in Konga.
Original Story and Screenplay by Aben Kandel and Herman Cohen
Produced by Herman Cohen
Directed by John Lemont
Starring:
Michael Gough as Dr. Charles Decker
Margo Johns as Margaret
Jess Conrad as Bob Kenton
Claire Gordon as Sandra Banks
Additional Cast:
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
Waveney Lee as Janet
John Welsh as Commissioner Garland
Bruce Beeby as Detective Raymond (uncredited)
Herman Cohen as First Man Buying Newspaper (uncredited)
Fred Davis as Man Waiting at Airport (uncredited)
Arthur Dibbs as Party Guest (uncredited)
Frank Forsyth asGeneral (uncredited)
Nora Gordon as Lady at Party (uncredited)
Iain Gregory (uncredited)
Frank Hawkins as Police Sergeant at Fire (uncredited)
George Hilsdon as Secind News zvendor (uncredited)
Gerry Judge as Man Fleeing Konga (uncredited)
Jack Lynn as Reporter (uncredited)
Fred Machon as Man Waiting at Airport (uncredited)
Alf Mangan as Man in Crowd (uncredited)
Richard Neller as Man Fleeing Konga (uncredited)
Paul Stockman as Konga (uncredited)
Joe Wadham as Policeman at Fire (uncredited)
Fred Wood as Man in Crowd (uncredited)
A Herman Cohen Production
An American International Picture
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Our open and close includes clips from the following films/trailers: How to Make a Monster (1958), The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957), High School Hellcats (1958), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), The Wild Angels (1966), It Conquered the World (1956), The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), and Female Jungle (1955)

