"With Sound! Music! And Dialogue!" 29 August 1929 Adventure, Action 189 mins
A Secret Service agent seeks his missing brother in Africa, and finds his mission complicated by ivory thieves, a girl with a mysterious past, and a troublesome gorilla.
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Jacqueline Logan as Diana Martin
Walter Miller as Larry Trent
Richard Tucker as Chief of the Secret Service
Boris Karloff as Scarface Macklin
Larry Steers as Jack Drake
Harry Todd as Commodore
Richard Neill as Tom Trent
Lafe McKee as Trader John
J.P. Lockney as Father Ricardo
William P. Burt as Mooney
J. Gordon Russell as Derelict
Robert Frazier as Dakka
Joe Bonomo as Gorilla
Wyndham Gittens Screenplay
Harry Sinclair Drago Screenplay
Nat Levine Producer
Richard Thorpe Director
Joe Bonomo Stunts
Yakima Canutt Stunts
Ray Ries Director of Photography
Ernest Laszlo Director of Photography
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United States 29 August 1929
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The King of the Kongo (1929) is a Mascot film serial and was the first serial to have sound[1] although only partial sound (Part Talking) rather than the later .
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