There's something monstrous about all this.
Ever wanted to see a remake of West of Zanzibar starring the old coot from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre when he wasn't so much of an old coot? Well, 1932's Kongo is the film for you, then. Taking back the role he originated on the New York stage six years earlier, Walter Huston is Flint, a bitter cripple and one-time stage magician living in the African jungle so he can carry out an elaborate revenge scheme against Gregg (C. Henry Gordon), the ivory trader who stole his wife and broke his spine (possibly, but not necessarily, in that order). Naturally, this involves keeping Gregg's daughter Ann (Virginia Bruce) in a convent for 18 years so she can be kept completely unsullied until Flint's ready to have her brought to the jungle and thoroughly degraded for her father's benefit.
Aiding Flint -- not entirely willingly, but fugitives from the law can't be picky -- are the seductive Tula (Lupe Velez, who previously played Lon Chaney's daughter in 1929's Where East Is East), brawny Hogan (Mitchell Lewis), and nervous Cookie (Forrester Harvey, later to play Twiddle in The Wolf Man). He also finds a use for Kingsland (Conrad Nagel), a doctor who stumbles into his territory, having come to the continent on a humanitarian mission to get the locals off a certain highly addictive root and fallen prey to it himself. (Say, physician...) After he undergoes the leech cure, though, the doc is clear-headed enough to surgically relieve the pain in Flint's back, an operation director William Cowen tactfully keeps out of frame. Even if this was made before the Production Code was in effect, there were still some things the studios knew they couldn't show.