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Congo Crossing
Congo Crossing is a 1956 American Technicolor film noir adventure film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Virginia Mayo and George Nader. Most of the exterior sequences were shot in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden.
Plot synopsis.
Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner (Tonio Selwart). The latest plane from Europe carries Louise Whitman (Virginia Mayo), (fleeing a French murder charge), and Mannering (Raymond
(1955). Edmund Grainger cast her in "Great Day in the Morning" (1956) with Robert Stack.
Mayo went to 20th Century Fox to play Robert Ryan's leading lady in "The Proud Ones" (1956) then she did "Congo Crossing" (1956) at Universal.
Mayo was reunited with Ladd in "The Big Land" (1957) made back at Warners. She played Cleopatra in the 1957 fantasy film "The Story of Mankind" with Vincent Price, Hedy Lamarr,