Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

O2D This movie is truly awful in so many ways that it will be hard to mention them all, but I will try.This is another very short movie with very little dialog or action.It's lots of people walking and not talking.The entire first half doesn't even have anything to do with the story.Then there's an old woman wearing a Stevie Ray Vaughn hat and she's angry at life.You will never suspect she isn't white until her brother shows up and he's clearly black.She mentions having gone to Africa decades ago many, many times.I guess we are supposed to assume that she somehow brought an ape man back with her because they never explain any of it.She's some kind of doctor and she has just discovered the most important thing in science since Louis Pasteur.And you know she keeps the ape man locked up in her basement lab, because that makes sense, and he immediately drinks it and goes nutzoid.So he kills some people and innocent people get blamed but not arrested.Instead the cop decides to just stay at the house overnight.The cop tells his chief the dead guy "had a broken neck, two collapsed ribs and a twisted back.I thought he had committed suicide until I noticed he had two broken arms".WTF?He thought the guy broke his own neck and twisted his own back?Dumb.Did I mention the old lady use to summon the ape man from the basement by banging a gong but when a guy empties his revolver into the ape man, no one up stairs can hear it?And when a woman screams from the basement everyone hears it?Dumb.When the third guy gets killed the cop jumps up and screams "Help!Murder!Police!" three times.Dumb.The most interesting thing about this movie is seeing how blacks were 75 years ago.Apparently they were all well mannered, dressed nice, spoke English, had jobs and they all had normal names.Yet today they can't do any of that.I didn't even come close to pointing out all the bad stuff about this horrible movie but I'm done.Don't waste your time with this.

Michael_Elliott Son of Ingagi (1940) ** (out of 4)A female doctor lives in a large castle where she brought a few things back from Africa. One is a large sum of gold and the other is a half-man, half-ape creature. One day the doctor is killed by the creature and her home is left to a newlywed couple. It doesn't take long for the couple to run into the creature.SON OF INGAGI is best remembered today for featuring an all black cast, which certainly wasn't the norm for 1940 and especially in the horror genre. I've seen a lot of the race pictures from this era and all of them suffer from having very small budgets and often time not having that much talent in front or behind the camera. This film here is actually pretty entertaining for what it is even with the limitations.What I enjoyed most about this picture was the monster itself. If you're familiar with the horror films from this period then you know gorillas and killer apes were quite popular and they'd continue to be throughout the decade. If you've seen Bela Lugosi's THE APE MAN then you'll see a few similarities to this picture but I'd argue that the ape creature here is even better since the actor's entire face is covered here (unlike Lugosi who the studio obviously still wanted you to see).Of course, there are several flaws in the movie, which is to be expected including some pretty fair to bad performances. I would argue that none of the performances are all that good but they had to work with what was available at the time. It should also go without saying that there wasn't too much suspense in the film and as a horror movie it's really not all that horrifying. Still, SON OF INGAGI makes for a decent way to kill a hour.

msladysoul I see there are many bad reviews for this movie mostly from Caucasian people who don't really care for race films or appreciate the efforts and are comparing race films with Hollywood films that had big budget that could make any movie better. I consider myself a expert on race films, I try to research the films and the people in it who have been forgotten and overlooked for their contribution to cinema, deserving or not. Son of Ingagi, is not one of the best race films, but I enjoyed it after watching it a few times. Instead of knocking the whole cast, there are quite a few good actors and actresses in this film who try to make the best in this film. Laura Bowman, one of the early black actresses of stage and screen, was a highly respected and talented actress, her acting was in the same fashion of Ethel Barrymore, Marie Dressler, and. She really stands out in this film. She was always great at playing an intimidating, misunderstood, grouchy old woman but she could be comical with the same traits. Handsome and suave Alfred Grant showed his potential as an actor in this film. He showed every true emotion for any given situation more then any other in the cast. Daisy Bufford who played the wife, was a little too cheerful for an horror movie. There were times where she should have been scare instead of smiling and looking calm. I just can't believe her in this film. I would liked to have seen Margaret Whitten, Sybil Lewis, Theresa Harris, or Mae Turner, some of race films better actresses in the wife part. Arthur Ray who plays the Doctor's brother is always good as the conniving old Grinch. Zack Williams was good at the grunts, roars, and I beg to differ if you saw such a thing as him in your home, you would be a little scared My problem with some of the acting was for an scary movie, there was times the husband and wife were a little too cheerful for living in a home where murders were committed but I understand that not too much emphasis, dialog, and attention was given to the actors and actresses in race films, most of these films were shot in a week, but if one is going to make any film or any kind, at least make it good, don't just do anything or show little concern because of lack of money or time. No this movie won't scare you but it gave me a chance to witness black actors and actresses playing people from all walks of life and not being stereotypes and many showed potentiality as actors and actresses. If black actors and actresses were developed by studios like many white actors and actresses, many could have been great.Basically this film is centered around a young married couple who's marriage is interrupted by mystery and murder that indirectly involves them. Dr. Jackson, a woman who is invited to their wedding, was connected to the wife's father whom she was in love with. The Doctor wants to give all her life earnings and home to the young married couple for being nice to her and because of love of the wife's father. The Doctor is killed by the ape she brought back from Africa, (how she got it into this country I'll never know) it seems he dranked something the Doctor mixed up that was gonna do something significant to change humanity, I wonder what it was because it made the ape dangerous and gave the ape killing tendencies. The ape killed his master, his Doctor. The young married couple finds the body and is suspected of killing the doctor because a will is found in which their to inherit the Doctor's money and home and its believed they made the will up and kill the Doctor because there's no other suspects. The young couple move into the Doctor's house (why I don't know, I wouldn't move into a home where someone was killed and the murderer is still loose) and they don't know there's an ape in the basement. An attorney is killed while visiting the home and so the detectives stake out at the home and well its found out later who committed the crimes and other stories unravel. Maybe the movie would have been more interesting if the husband and wife would have suspected each other. I mean there was really no whodunit between the husband and wife. The wife was walking around like nothing was happening.I like The Four Toppers, they were a great singing group. I wonder if The Four Tops knew it was a grew before them with sort of the same name?

sol1218 **SPOILERS*** Spending most of her adult life in the African jungles American missionary Dr. Jackson not only helped hundred of natives to see the light and better their and their friends and families lives but also helped herself to a fortune of some $20,000.00 in gold nuggets. that she found, with divine guidance, all around her mission grounds. Dr. Jackson also picked up in the wilds of Africa and secretly brought back home to America a jungle ape-man that she called Ingeena.Back in the states Dr. Jackson decides to make out her will and leaves everything that she owns, her house as well as her stash of gold, to sweet and pretty Eleanor who just got married at the local church to Robert Lindsey where Dr. Jackson was one of the invited guests. It turns out that Dr. Jackson knew both of Eleanor's parents who were killed in a tornado when she was only 10 months old and has been looking after Eleanor, behind the scenes, all that time. It's not fully explained in the movie but you get the impression that Dr. Jackson was in love or even had an affair with Eleanor's father before he married another woman her mother.After having her lawyer Mr. Bradshaw make out her will Dr. Johnson goes down to her laboratory and secret basement, where she keeps Ingeena hidden from the public. After mixing some chemicals she becomes very excited yelling that she just discovered the greatest secret in the history of mankind. As she runs upstairs to check out what composite of the formula she just discovered is Ingeena gulps it down, thinking that it's some kind of new and exotic jungle fruit drink, and then suddenly goes bananas breaking out of the basement and attacking and killing Dr. Johnson.The movie "Son of Ingagi" is an all-black comedy horror movie even though one of it's major stars, Laura Bowman as Dr.Jackson, can easily pass for white. The Lindseys, who had everything to gain by Dr. Jackson death, are suspected in not only her murder but later in the deaths of both Dr. Johnson's scheming and criminal brother Zino as well as her lawyer Bradshaw. Whom both the wild and crazy jungle ape-man Ingeena murdered. Robert & Eleanor moving into Dr. Johnson's home have no idea that Ingeena is roaming around and raiding the ice-box and stuffing himself with baloney and salami sandwiches while no one was looking. Having detective Nelson put on the case he always screws things up by sleeping on the job and trying to help himself to a free meal which the clever Ingeena always beats him to.Ingeena for his part starts to take a strong liking for Eleanor whom he then kidnaps and brings down to his secret hideout, the Lindsey's basement, to have a good time with. Being so enchanted with Eleanor's beauty the absent-minded Ape-man doesn't realize that he knocks over a gas lamp setting the basement and entire house on fire,Robert looking for Eleanor and noticing that there's smoke coming out from behind the wall of his bedroom goes together with the just awakened and totally bewildered Det. Nelson to the basement. After finding and slugging it out with Ingeena Robert rescues Eleanor and makes it out of the house and right into the arms of the police, lead by Det. Nelson's boss Chief Graves. It turns out that the apparently burned to death hero Det Nelson staggers out of the bushes with two sacks full of gold coins and nuggets that Dr. Johnson had hidden in her house. Robert & Eleanor thinking that they lost everything that the had in the world are now, with the gold belonging to them because of Dr. Jackson's last will and testament, rich and can start a new life and finally put the unpleasant and deadly episode that they had with ape-man Ingeena behind them.