Congo (1995) on Netflix
PG-1319951h 49mActionAdventureMystery
TraviCom loses contact with a team hunting blue diamonds in the Congolian rainforests. Karen Ross leads a new expedition there, joined by Peter Elliot, who is bringing the gorilla Amy home.
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Plot summary
Charles Travis and Jeffrey Weems, TraviCom employees, are in the Congolian rainforests looking for rare blue diamonds when they come upon the remains of an ancient city close to a remote volcano. Contact with them is lost, and R.B. Travis, the company's chief executive and Charles's father, asks Karen Ross, Charles's former fiancée, to lead a new expedition to the site. Primatologist Peter Elliot, who has taught sign language to a mountain gorilla named Amy and wants to return her to Africa, joins with his assistant Richard, and the Romanian philanthropist Herkermer Homolka offers to fund the journey. In Uganda the group hires the wilderness guide Munro Kelly, and the Ugandan officer Captain Wanta allows them to continue only after a large bribe.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Congo (1995)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Crichton left the project when he learned that he could not use a real gorilla to portray the character of Amy. It was offered to several directors including Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter before Frank Marshall eventually directed it, with little, if any, involvement from Crichton.
- After the success of The First Great Train Robbery, Crichton wrote a screenplay specifically for Sean Connery as Charles Munro, an archetypal “great white hunter” in the mould of H. Rider Haggard's Allan Quatermain, and pitched the film to 20th Century Fox in 1979 without a fleshed out story.
