Congo Crossing is a 1956 adventure film

Adventure film

Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....

 directed by Joseph Pevney

Joseph Pevney

Joseph Pevney was an American film and television director.-Biography:Pevney was born on September 15, 1911 in New York City, New York.He made his debut in vaudeville as a boy soprano in 1924...

 and starring Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo was an American film actress.After a short career in vaudeville, Mayo progressed to films and during the 1940s established herself as a supporting player in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives and White Heat .Mayo remained an A-list actress into the mid-'50s, but then went...

 and George Nader

George Nader

George Nader was an American film and television actor of Lebanese descent. He appeared in a variety of films from 1950 through 1974, including Phone Call from a Stranger , Congo Crossing , and The Female Animal...

. Most of the exterior sequences were shot in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden

Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden

The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, 127 acres , is an arboretum, botanical garden, and historical site nestled into hills near the San Gabriel Mountains, at 301 North Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA...

.

Plot synopsis

Congotanga, West Africa

West Africa

West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries and an area of approximately 5 million square km:-Flags of West Africa:...

, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner (Tonio Selwart

Tonio Selwart

Tonio Selwart was a Bavarian actor and stage performer.-Biography:Named Antonio Franz Theus Selmair-Selwart at birth, Tonio Selwart was born in Wartenberg, Bavaria, Germany, and raised in Munich. After studying medicine like his father , he decided instead to become an actor, following a life-long...

). The latest plane from Europe carries Louise Whitman (Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo was an American film actress.After a short career in vaudeville, Mayo progressed to films and during the 1940s established herself as a supporting player in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives and White Heat .Mayo remained an A-list actress into the mid-'50s, but then went...

), (fleeing a French murder charge), and Mannering (Raymond Bailey

Raymond Bailey

Raymond Thomas Bailey was an American actor on the Broadway stage, movies, and television. He is best known for his role as wealthy banker, Milburn Drysdale, in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies....

), who pays resident hit man O'Connell (Michael Pate

Michael Pate

Michael Pate was an Australian actor, writer and director.-Early life:He was born Edward John Pate in Drummoyne, Sydney...

) to kill her. Through a chain of circumstances Louise, O'Connell, and heroic surveyor David Carr (George Nader

George Nader

George Nader was an American film and television actor of Lebanese descent. He appeared in a variety of films from 1950 through 1974, including Phone Call from a Stranger , Congo Crossing , and The Female Animal...

) end up alone in the jungle on Carr's mission to determine the true border of Congotanga... in which Rittner is keenly interested.

Cast

• Virginia Mayo
  Virginia Mayo
  Virginia Mayo was an American film actress.After a short career in vaudeville, Mayo progressed to films and during the 1940s established herself as a supporting player in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives and White Heat .Mayo remained an A-list actress into the mid-'50s, but then went...
  
   - Louise Whitman
• George Nader
  George Nader
  George Nader was an American film and television actor of Lebanese descent. He appeared in a variety of films from 1950 through 1974, including Phone Call from a Stranger , Congo Crossing , and The Female Animal...
  
   - David Carr
• Peter Lorre
  Peter Lorre
  Peter Lorre was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M...
  
   - Colonel John Miguel Orlando Arragas
• Michael Pate
  Michael Pate
  Michael Pate was an Australian actor, writer and director.-Early life:He was born Edward John Pate in Drummoyne, Sydney...
  
   - Bart O'Connell
• Rex Ingram
  Rex Ingram (actor)
  Rex Ingram was an American stage, film, and television actor.-Early life and career:Born near Cairo, Illinois on the Mississippi River, Ingram's father was a steamer fireman on the riverboat Robert E. Lee...
  
   - Dr. Leopold Gorman
• Tonio Selwart
  Tonio Selwart
  Tonio Selwart was a Bavarian actor and stage performer.-Biography:Named Antonio Franz Theus Selmair-Selwart at birth, Tonio Selwart was born in Wartenberg, Bavaria, Germany, and raised in Munich. After studying medicine like his father , he decided instead to become an actor, following a life-long...
  
   - Carl Rittner
• Kathryn Givney - Amelia Abbott
• Tudor Owen - Emile Zorfus
• Raymond Bailey
  Raymond Bailey
  Raymond Thomas Bailey was an American actor on the Broadway stage, movies, and television. He is best known for his role as wealthy banker, Milburn Drysdale, in the television series The Beverly Hillbillies....
  
   - Peter Mannering
• George Ramsey - Miguel Diniz
• Maurice Donner - Marquette
• Bernie Hamilton
  Bernie Hamilton
  Bernie Hamilton was an American actor.Hamilton was born in East Los Angeles and attended Oakland Technical High School, where he first became interested in acting. In films from 1950, he laboured in bit roles for years before getting noticed in the film One Potato, Two Potato , the story of an...
  
   - Pompala
• Harold Dyenforth - Steiner