Congo Bill (serial)

Congo Bill (1948) is a Columbia movie serial based on the DC Comics character Congo Bill, later named Congorilla.

Plot
A girl is about to inherit a fortune, but she is missing in Africa. Her family engages Congo Bill, an adventurer, to find her, and bring her back to civilization. He follows a legend about a mysterious White Queen, but his path is full of difficulties, by an inhospitable jungle, and the man who will lose the fortune if the girl is found alive...

Cast

 * Don McGuire as Congo Bill, famed hunter and animal trainer
 * Cleo Moore as Queen Lureen / Ruth Culver, white ruler of a forbidden valley in Africa and the missing heiress to the Culver fortune
 * Jack Ingram as Cameron, mysterious trader
 * I. Stanford Jolley as Bernie McGraw, villainous trustee of the Culver fortune
 * Leonard Penn as Andre Bocar, owner of the seedy African bar The Green Parrot Inn, in Bernie McGraw's pay and working for his own ends
 * Nelson Leigh as Dr Greenway
 * Charles King as Kleeg, employee of Andre Bocar in The Green Parrot Inn
 * Armida Vendrell as Zalea
 * Hugh Prosser as Morelli
 * Neyle Morrow as Kahla
 * Fred Graham as Villabo
 * Rusty Wescoatt as Ivan
 * Anthony Warde as Rogan
 * Stephen Carr as Tom McGraw, murdered brother of Bernie McGraw and trustee of the Culver fortune
 * William Fawcett as Blinky
 * Knox Manning as Narrator
 * Frank O'Connor as Frank, cafe clerk
 * Eddie Parker as torturer
 * Stanley Price as Nagu's friend

Crew

 * Directors: Thomas Carr, Spencer Gordon Bennet
 * Producer: Sam Katzman
 * Cinematographer: Ira Morgan
 * Art Director: Paul Palmentola
 * Editors: Earl Turner, Dwight Caldwell
 * Sound mixer: Josh Westmoreland

Chapter titles
Source:
 * 1) The Untamed Beast
 * 2) Jungle Gold
 * 3) A Hot Reception
 * 4) Congo Bill Springs a Trap
 * 5) White Shadows in the Jungle
 * 6) The White Queen
 * 7) Black Panther
 * 8) Sinister Schemes
 * 9) The Witch Doctor Strikes
 * 10) Trail of Treachery
 * 11) A Desperate Chance
 * 12) The Lair of the Beast
 * 13) Menace of the Jungle
 * 14) Treasure Trap
 * 15) The Missing Letter