''Congo Crossing'' is a 1956 American

adventure film An adventure film is a form of adventure fiction, and is a genre of film. Subgenres of adventure films include swashbuckler films, pirate films, and survival films. Adventure films may also be combined with other film genres such as action, ani ...

directed by

Joseph Pevney Joseph Pevney (September 15, 1911 – May 18, 2008) was an American film and television director.

and starring

Virginia Mayo Virginia Mayo (born Virginia Clara Jones; November 30, 1920 – January 17, 2005) was an American actress and dancer. She was in a series of comedy films with Danny Kaye and was Warner Brothers' biggest box-office money-maker in the late 1940s. ...

and George Nader. Most of the exterior sequences were shot in the

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Plot

Congotanga,

West Africa West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali ...

, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner (

Tonio Selwart Antonio Franz Theus "Tonio" Selmair-Selwart (June 9, 1896 – November 2, 2002) was a German actor and stage performer. Biography Selwart was born in Wartenberg, Bavaria, Germany, and raised in Munich. After studying medicine like his fa ...

). The latest plane from Europe carries Louise Whitman (

), (fleeing a French murder charge), and Mannering (

Raymond Bailey Raymond Thomas Bailey (May 6, 1904 – April 15, 1980) was an American actor, and comedian on the Broadway stage, films, and television. He is best known for his role as greedy banker Milburn Drysdale in the television series ''The Beverly Hill ...

), who pays resident hit man O'Connell ( Michael Pate) to kill her. Through a chain of circumstances Louise, O'Connell, and heroic surveyor David Carr ( George Nader) end up alone in the jungle on Carr's mission to determine the true border of Congotanga... in which Rittner is keenly interested.

Cast

as Louise Whitman * George Nader as David Carr *

Peter Lorre Peter Lorre (; born László Löwenstein, ; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, first in Europe and later in the United States. He began his stage career in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before movin ...

as Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas * Michael Pate as Bart O'Connell * Rex Ingram as Dr. Leopold Gorman *

as Carl Rittner *

Kathryn Givney Kathryn Givney (October 27, 1896 – March 16, 1978) was an American actress on stage and in films. Biography In 1928, Givney was a member of the S. E. Cochran Repertory Company. In 1930, she appeared in ''Stepping Sisters'' at the Hollywood Pl ...

as Amelia Abbott * Tudor Owen as Emile Zorfus *

as Peter Mannering * George Ramsey as Miguel Diniz * Maurice Donner as Marquette *

Bernie Hamilton Bernard Hamilton (June 12, 1928 – December 30, 2008) was an American actor. Best known as Captain Dobey in ''Starsky & Hutch'' (1975-1979). Biography Hamilton was born in East Los Angeles; his brother was jazz drummer Chico Hamilton. He at ...

as Pompala * Harold Dyenforth as Steiner

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* * * 1956 films Universal Pictures films 1956 adventure films Films directed by Joseph Pevney Films set in Africa Films set in Belgian Congo American adventure films 1950s English-language films 1950s American films {{adventure-film-stub

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