Konga (film)

Konga also called I Was a Teenage Gorilla is a 1961 BritishAmerican international coproduction science fiction horror film directed by John Lemont and starring Michael Gough, Margo Johns and Austin Trevor. It was shot at Merton Park Studios and in Croydon for Anglo Amalgamated then distributed in the United States by American International Pictures AIP as a double feature with Master of the World. Anglo Amalgamated and AIP each provided half the funding for the US500,000 film with each studio receiving distribution rights in their respective hemispheres.

British botanist Dr. Charles Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee, Konga, to test out his theory. Decker Michael Gough goes insane after he discovers a serum that turns his chimpanzee subject into a ferocious gorillasized ape. To further his hideous experiments, he mesmerizes the chimp and sends it to London to kill all his enemies who want more credit in the scientific community than he already has. Among his targets is Dean Foster Austin Trevor Professor Tagore George Pastell and Bob Kenton Jess Conrad, the lover of Sandra Banks Claire Gordon, the woman the doctor wants for himself.After Konga strangles Bob Kenton to death, Dr. Charles Decker attempts to make Sandra Banks his own. This doesnt sit well with Margaret Margo Johns, the botanists assistant and current girlfriend, who attempts to get even by giving Konga an enormous amount of the strange serum and turns him into an enormous monster, although she becomes his first victim Konga Kills Margaret. ........

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