LastingAware The greatest movie ever!

Brightlyme i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Spikeopath The 6th of Johnny Weissmuller's forays into Jungle Jim's khaki shorts proves to be a damp squib. It's low on ideas and crudely constructed by director William Berke. OK, lets not beat around the jungle bush, for the very young film fan there is more than enough here to keep them rooted to the sofa. From hilariously bad spider designs to recycled animal fights, there's no denying that young eyes can enjoy whilst feasting on their burgers. Hell, the plot even has some intelligence to it, even if it's a touch bonkers as drug lords seek to extract narcotic tinged glands from the Okongo, a half horse/zebra/antelope thingy that the makers have made up. But this is all told one of the weakest of the series and feels old hat as regards familiarity breeding contempt. 4/10

Michael_Elliott Fury of the Congo (1951) * 1/2 (out of 4) Sixth film in the Columbia-Sam Katzman series has Jungle Jim (Johnny Weissmuller) trying to stop some drug dealers who are capturing horse-like animals whose glands can be turned into a strong drug. What Jim doesn't realize is that the man he trusts most is the one behind the scheme. FURY OF THE CONGO is pretty much what you'd expect from a Jungle Jim movie as we begin with some weird narration that sets everything up and that follows with countless bits of stock footage showing off the animals and then Jim enters the picture and of course he's normally swimming. It's clear that this series was aimed at the kids during a Saturday matinée and that's fine but when viewed today it's really hard to find anything good to say about the films. This one here is one of the weaker ones even though it actually does feature one of the more entertaining or at least interesting story lines. The idea of this zebra-horse crossbreed being used for drugs was an interesting idea that could have worked in another film but here it just leads to one boring sequence after another. Not only do the action scenes come off boring but they're also done extremely cheaply and look so poor that you often start to wonder if perhaps one of the chimps running around the set took a camera and started filming. There are also a few funny goofs in the film including one where Jim grabs a weed that's basically going to be used as a straw so that he can hide underwater and still be able to breathe. I'm not sure if Weissmuller just didn't realize how deep the water was or what but when he goes under he actually goes all the way under including bringing the breathing device under with him. As for the former Tarzan, he's pretty lifeless here but I guess at this point in his career he was just going by-the-numbers. The supporting cast includes Sherry Moreland and William Henry but neither bring much life to the screen nor does Lyle Talbot in his small role. The craziest sequence happens during a windstorm when a large spider attacks Jim. At first I thought this "spider" was just the top of some palm tree because that's exactly what it looks like. The scene is pretty funny because it's obvious this "spider" doesn't have very much movement and when it's supposed to be pulling Jim back, it's easy to see that Weissmuller is using his hands to move back. FURY OF THE CONGO is yet another poor film in this series, which today is mainly for those who enjoy bad movies.

lemon_magic Taken out of its context as a low budget Saturday afternoon matinée, "Fury Of The Congo" doesn't stack up very well against "real" films. But compared to other Tarzan and Jungle Jim films, "Fury Of the Congo" is pretty good. It seems to have a lot more actual outdoor footage than many of the other JJ/Tarzan films of that era, the direction and screenplay are better and snappier...and either Weismuller is quite a bit better delivering his lines than he normally is, or else I'm just getting used to his wooden acting. Parts of the film are actually a fair amount of fun to watch: Tamba accidentally knocks Jim into a quicksand patch at one point, Jim escapes from armed pursuers by breathing thru a reed while he hides underwater, and yes, Jim swings from tree to tree on a series of vines at another point. The movie ends with an energetic mêlée between the bad guys and Jim/Tamba/the enslaved native tribe/their spear wielding Amazonian wives that melds with with a zebra (or Okongo) stampede and a sandstorm.The one thing that doesn't quite work is the scene that got the movie included in the science fiction/fantasy compilation, "Keep Watching The Skies!" - the giant spider attack. In the context of the film, this makes no sense whatever, and worse, it's a pretty dull little scene - the spider costume is utterly unconvincing as it tries to choke Jim, and Jim cuts on the spider's legs until it lets go, and well, you can imagine the rest.You don't look for high quality film making in a Jungle Jim film...you just want nostalgia. This one managed to avoid sucking enough that I was able to enjoy it as a flashback to my 8 year old movie watching experience.

Chris Gaskin I obtained a copy of Fury of the Congo from the same source as the Bomba movies I have.In this one, Jungle Jim, a native woman and another man who is pretending to be their friend and is actually a hunter go and track down a group of hunters who have kidnapped all the native men. These hunters are after a rare breed of horse, the Okongo and want the native men to help them to kill the Okongoes as they are a source of a kind of drug. During the expedition, Jim and his companions face several dangers including dust storms and, best of all, a giant desert spider. The hunters are captured at the end, some of them killed and the native men are reunited with their wives. The Okongoes are safe and well too.As always, Johnny Wiessmuller plays Jungle Jim and the rest of the cast includes Lyle Talbot and William Henry.Fury of the Kongo is worth a look at if you get the chance. Quite hard to get hold of.Rating: 3 stars out of 5.