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Having been lost in the African jungle for more than a year, professor
Dekker (Michael Gough) returns to London, & seems to have brought with
him a chimp, an array of carnivorous plants, & some strange ideas
about some growth serum. Nobody seems to believe him about the grownth
serum of course, & Foster (Austin Trevor), the dean of the school he
works at, even tries to silence Dekker for the sake of the school, but
Dekker is not only convinced, he also tests his serum on his baby chimp
Konga, & before his eyes & the eyes of his lab assistant Margaret
(Margo Johns), Konga grows, soon enough to human size (& is now played
by George Barrows in an ape suit that resembles more a gorilla than
a chimpanzee).
Instead of celebrating his scientific success though, professor Dekker
orders Konga, who is under his hypnotic control, to kill the dean ...
A short time later, he orders Konga to kill Professor Tagore (George
Pastell), whose scientific efforts rival his, as well.
Naturally, the police is baffled, & never once have the idea of
investigating that respectable scientist professor Dekker - only Margaret
suspects something, but she is secretly in love with Dekker (& has
been for years), so she won't say a word.
But Dekker is not only a scientist but also a man, & soon one of
his students, blonde Sandra (Claire Gordon), has caught his eye, & he
promises to make her his new lab assistant. Her boyfriend Bob (Jess
Conrad) though smells the beef, & tries to threaten Dekker to leave
his girl in peace ... but soon enough the young student, too, falls prey
to the ape ...
Soon enough, Dekker ahs lured Sandra to his home, & in his
greenhouse he tries to take advantage of her ... but seeing that breaks
Margaret's heart, & she not only tries to bring the ape under her
control, but also grow it even more - in the end Konga is about 30 feet
high -, but her plan fails when Konga no longer listens to her, throws her
to the professor's carnivorous plants, then picks up the professor &
takes him on a stroll around town, every now & again stopping to
destroy a building.
In the end though, with all their firepower, the army can stop the ape,
who throws Dekker at them (& to his death) before breaking down with
massive bullet wounds himself (it's amazing though how many bullets in
this film miss the ape who's as big as a house).
& in his death, Konga turns back into the cute little chimp he once
was.
For the most part, Konga plays like one of this mad scientist-
&/or gorilla-movies which American B-studios like Monogram
or PRC had
produced some 20 years earlier (The Ape
of Devil Bat spring to mind, to
name but two), & the gorilla costume looks actually shoddier than
those used in the 1940's - the end is of course clearly borrowed from King
Kong, in case you didn't realize from my synopsis.
Unfortunately though, Konga can compete with neither of above
mentioned films, it simply looks old fashioned for its time, & the
generic fascination for its pulp subject somehow seems totally amiss here,
it's just a mad scientist story by the numbers, & with allmost 90
minutes way too long for its feeble story.
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