Son of Ingagi
Cast & Crew
Richard C. Kahn
Zack Williams
Laura Bowman
Alfred Grant
Daisy Bufford
Arthur Ray
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Synopsis
Moments after the wedding of Robert and Eleanor Lindsay, wealthy old skinflint Dr. Helen Jackson asks the lawyer Bradshaw to draw up her will. While the wedding reception is in full swing, Helen, an African missionary who introduced Eleanor's parents, both of whom died shortly after Eleanor's birth, secretly observes the festivities through a window. The reception is interrupted by an explosion at the foundry where Bob works, which results in the loss of his job. When Helen arrives at her home, she finds her criminal brother Zeno waiting for her, so she rings her Oriental gong, summoning the strange ape-man N'Gina, who frightens Zeno away. That night, Helen completes her drug experiments and creates the greatest medicine ever made. However, when N'Gina drinks from one of the test tubes, he becomes enraged and kills her. The Lindsays find Helen's body, and because they are named as the beneficiaries in her will, they are initially suspected of murdering her. Eventually, though, the Lindsays are acquitted of the crime, and they move into Helen's manor, where Eleanor soon discovers that food is mysteriously disappearing. Bradshaw, the executor of the will, comes to urge them to sell the house, and while rummaging through the desk, he carelessly rings the gong, which summons N'Gina from his hiding place in the cellar. Angry at finding a stranger in Helen's chair, N'Gina brutally kills Bradshaw. After the comical detective Nelson, assigned to solve the case of the mystery manor, moves into the home, Zeno breaks into the couple's bedroom, but escapes when Eleanor accidentally hits Bob instead of Zeno. After seeing N'Gina emerge from the cellar, Zeno goes downstairs to seize Helen's gold. Zeno finds the gold, and when N'Gina catches him, he fires his gun at the beast, but N'Gina survives and drags Zeno upstairs to Nelson. N'Gina then carries Eleanor downstairs, and she faints upon seeing him. When Nelson wakes up and sees Zeno's body, his shouts awaken Bob, who searches for Eleanor. N'Gina accidentally starts a fire, and Eleanor's screams draw Bob and Nelson into the cellar, where Nelson fails to arrest N'Gina. Bob, however, succeeds in locking the beast in a cell, and as the house and N'Gina go up in flames, Nelson emerges from the shrubbery with the bags of gold, and Bob and Eleanor escape unharmed.
Director
Richard C. Kahn
Cast
Zack Williams
Laura Bowman
Alfred Grant
Daisy Bufford
Arthur Ray
Spencer Williams Jr.
Earl J. Morris
Jesse Graves
"the [four] Toppers"
Crew
Film Details
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Notes
A working title for this film was Horror House. Although onscreen credits state that the picture was copyrighted in 1940, no copyright registration has been found. Son of Ingagi is unrelated to the popular 1930 exploitation film Ingagi.
