One of the lesser Maisie films, at least to me, but still worth a look. This is the second entry in the series, beginning the pattern of ignoring what happened in the previous film. Maisie somehow finds her way on a ship bound for Africa. She meets up with a gruff unlikable man she inevitably will fall for (an unfortunate theme for the series). This one peddles in the clicheso of similar films of the time about natives always on the edge of uprising and lonely housewives on rubber plantations looking for Mr. Goodbar. All that stuff is the pits. Ann Sothern is the only thing that keeps this ship afloat. Every scene with her is a vast improvement over those without. Like I said, it's not one that I enjoy much so I don't revisit it often. But there's still entertainment to be had, at least when the star is onscreen."It takes a certain kind of woman to handle a certain kind of man"
Review of Congo Maisie
Congo Maisie
(1940)
"It takes a certain kind of woman to handle a certain kind of man"
9 October 2023