Congo Crossing is a 1956 American Technicolor adventure film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Virginia Mayo, George Nader, and Peter Lorre. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. Most of the exterior sequences were shot at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden.
Plot
The film is set in the fictional West African nation of Congotanga, a country with no extradition laws, making it a haven for international fugitives. The government is controlled by foreign gangsters headed by Carl Rittner (Tonio Selwart). The latest plane from Europe carries Louise Whitman (Virginia Mayo), who is fleeing a French murder charge, and Mannering (Raymond Bailey), who pays resident hitman Bart 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 — a matter in which Rittner is keenly interested.
Cast
- Virginia Mayo as Louise Whitman
- George Nader as David Carr
- Peter Lorre as Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas
- Michael Pate as Bart O'Connell
- Rex Ingram as Dr. Leopold Gorman
- Tonio Selwart as Carl Rittner
- Kathryn Givney as Amelia Abbott
- Tudor Owen as Emile Zorfus
- Raymond Bailey as Peter Mannering
- George Ramsey as Miguel Diniz
- Maurice Donner as Marquette
- Bernie Hamilton as Pompala
- Harold Dyenforth as Steiner
Production details
- Directed by: Joseph Pevney
- Screenplay by: Richard Alan Simmons
- Story by: Houston Branch
- Produced by: Howard Christie
- Cinematography: Russell Metty
- Edited by: Sherman Todd
- Color process: Technicolor
- Production company: Universal Pictures
- Release date: July 2, 1956
- Running time: 85 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English
