Nabonga

When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.

Cast

Buster Crabbe

as Ray Gorman

Fifi D'Orsay

as Marie

Barton MacLane

as Carl Hurst

Julie London

as Doreen Stockwell

Bryant Washburn

as Hunter

Herbert Rawlinson

as T.F. Stockwell

Jackie Newfield

as Doreen Stockwell als Kind

Ray Corrigan

as Nabonga der Gorilla

Reviews

CinemaSerf

This film has quite a sincere underlying message - conveying a remarkably (for the time) enlightened mid-WWII message on racial equality. It is just let down by the poor execution - not least from a dreadfully flat Buster Crabbe as "Ray" and the man in gorilla suit. When an hunter attempts to track ...

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