Konga (film)

Konga
Theatrical release poster by Reynold Brown
Directed byJohn Lemont
Written byHerman Cohen
Aben Kandel
Produced byHerman Cohen
Nathan Cohen
Stuart Levy
StarringMichael Gough
Margo Johns
Jess Conrad
Claire Gordon
CinematographyDesmond Dickinson
Edited byJack Slade
Music byGerard Schurmann
Production
company
Distributed byAnglo Amalgamated (Eastern hemisphere)
American International Pictures (Western hemisphere)
Release dates
  • 26 March 1961 (1961-03-26) (United Kingdom)
  • 22 March 1961 (1961-03-22) (Boston)
  • 3 May 1961 (1961-05-03) (United States)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
Budget$500,000

Konga is a 1961 Eastmancolor monster film directed by John Lemont and starring Michael Gough, Margo Johns and Austin Trevor.[1] It was written by Herman Cohen and Aben Kandel.

It was the basis for a comic book series published by Charlton Comics and initially drawn by Steve Ditko (prior to Ditko's co-creation of Spider-Man) in the 1960s.[2]

  1. ^ "Konga". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Steve Ditko". Archived from the original on 2018-07-07. Retrieved 2017-12-12.