Review of Kongo

Kongo (1932)
6/10
jungle exploitation movie
30 May 2023
A white evil wheelchair-bound man named Flint Rutledge (Walter Huston) rules over African villagers by scaring them with his second-rate magic tricks. He uses liquor and sugar to entice them. Ann Whitehall (Virginia Bruce) has been tricked and trapped at the compound.

This was degraded to B-movie status due to its disturbing nature. Today, it has issues with its racism and general ugliness. At least, the white people are drunken corrupt rulers. Flint is an interesting villain, but I still need a better protagonist. A modern movie would have the blonde girl take revenge and burn the whole place down by herself. This is a jungle exploitation movie when nobody would call it that.
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