Kong Island


Kong Island is a 1968 jungle adventure film directed by Roberto Mauri. The film was promoted in the U.S. as King of Kong Island.

Plot synopsis

The story takes place in the jungles of Kenya and its capital city Nairobi. Despite the English-language title, there is no island. Mad scientist Albert Muller is experimenting with small radio transmitters implanted in the brains of gorillas that control their minds. These are test subjects with the ultimate goal of doing this to humans.
Diana, the daughter of bar owner Theodore, is abducted by gorillas. Burt also has a personal motive---he was shot and left for dead by an ex-partner who he suspects is behind the situation. Hostile natives attack his group, and Burt is captured along the way. After he escapes, Burt meets a legendary white jungle girl the natives call the Sacred Monkey.
Eva is a Tarzan-like orphan who grew up alone in the jungle. She wears only a leather loincloth, and her waist-length black hair covers her breasts. She does not speak English but can communicate with animals and has a pet chimpanzee. She has one of Diana's bracelets and eventually leads Burt to a cave where she is being held prisoner by Muller. This is where the final conflict and resolution takes place---a rather convoluted mess that leaves Burt and Diana as the only survivors.
Unlike virtually every other film which features a jungle girl character, this story concentrates on Burt and his love interest Diana, with Eva confined to a marginal supporting role.
This film, though the name is very closely related to a very popular movie franchise, is not related in any form to King Kong. It is a translation of an Italian film Eva, la Venere Selvaggia, which translates as Eve the Savage Venus, leading to the alternate English-language title Eve the Wild Woman. This gives a better approximation of the film being closer one of the female Tarzan copies such as The Perils of Nyoka or tv’s Sheena, [Queen of the Jungle |Sheena, Queen of the Jungle].

Cast

Contrary to popular belief, this film has nothing to do with King Kong and does not take place on an island. The film is in the public domain.