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[Bud Brewster]

This frame from one of the Konga comics makes me laugh every time I see it.



The movie has the same effect. Michael Gough is doing real serious research that involves strange meat-eating plants, serums that cause gorillas to grow into giants, and a busty woman who stirs Michael's blood.

Claire Gordon is his helpful and highly qualified lab assistant, an outstanding woman (you might say) who commands Michael's full attention because of her animal magnitism.




Margo Johns is also helping Michael make startling discoveries in the field of simian growth hormones — and she happens to be deeply in love with him. Unfortunately, her most outstanding feature is about a foot above the one that Claire has (and Michael wants).




But Margo dutifully gives Konga his daily shots —




— while Claire proves that even the giant Venus Flytrap in Michael's greenhouse thinks she's a mighty tasty dish.




The climax to this kinky soap opera involves a confrontation between King Konga and Big Ben — which is certainly a original idea for a meeting of two giants!



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Bud Brewster]

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Enjoy the trailer for this classic on YouTube!



And here's the confrontation between Konga and London's most ferocious clock — Big Ben!



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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Robert (Butch) Day]

Both Konga and Reptilicus are infamous for having soft-porn novelizations written by Dean Owen and published by Monarch books.
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Common Sense ISN'T Common

[ufso]

Maybe some day we'll get on BD in its correct aspect ratio. Both the double feature on the Midnite Movie and single disc SD are both non-anamorphic.
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[Rocky Jones]

I'm not certain I ever sat through this one all the way, but I distinctly recall some of the stills you've posted as appearing in my collection of monster movie bubble gum trading cards. I haven't thought about those in years. Here's a link to some pics of a few. It looks like they're worth a few bucks these days. http://www.fourcolorcomics.com/store/index.php?action=describe&id=2088115

Edit: Here's a Konga card: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-D79KRriBm1g/UYzWcB1nG6I/AAAAAAAANgM/bh6dm0Zv_9A/s1600/KONGA+GOUGH.jpg

[MetroPolly]

Here's another example of a scene chewing mad scientist. We ought to have a list of films featuring that kind of nuttiness.

[Bud Brewster]

[Phantom]

Michael Gough deserved the Bela Lugosi Flamboyant Award for his many off the wall screen performances.

The Tony Award winning actor had a long and prosperous career on the London and Broadway stages, including two adaptations of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

Gough racked up a total of 199 film and tv credits between 1946 and his death in 2011. His was a formidable presence on screen, an electric personality that commanded audience attention, even in the presence of great actors like Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. His demented characters, always on the verge of total meltdown, were often the only saving grace in movies like Horrors of the Black Museum, Black Zoo and Konga.

Not everyone's favorite actor when he threatened to burst through the screen's fourth wall and land in your lap, but certainly an entertaining and unforgettable one.
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What Is Essential Is Invisible

[Bud Brewster]

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Terrific post, Phantom! Well-written and well-researched.

Thanks!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)