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Nabonga

"A WHITE GIRL RULES THE JUNGLE...HER STRENGTH OF POWER WAS "NABONGA!""

1944

1h 11m

4.4(19 votes)

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Mystery

Crime

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When a treasure hunter seeks a downed airplane in the jungles of Africa, he encounters one of the passenger's young daughter, now fully grown, and with a gorilla protector.

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8 featured cast members

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Buster Crabbe

Ray Gorman

Fifi D'Orsay

Marie

Barton MacLane

Carl Hurst

Julie London

Doreen Stockwell

Bryant Washburn

Hunter

Herbert Rawlinson

T.F. Stockwell

Jackie Newfield

Doreen Stockwell als Kind

Ray Corrigan

Nabonga der Gorilla

Creative team

Directed by: Sam Newfield
Written by: Fred Myton
Produced by: Sigmund Neufeld

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