- Brooklyn showgirl Maisie gets stranded in the African jungle with a romantic doctor.
- In this adaptation of the novel "Congo Landing," showgirl Maisie Ravier is left stranded in an African village. She's given refuge by Michael Shane, an attractive, but hard-boiled local doctor. She soon finds herself playing Dear Abby for a visiting doctor and his wife, warding off an attack by natives, and trying to get Shane to warm up to her.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
- Streetwise and kindhearted Maisie Ravier is a vaudeville performer. For the last little while, she has been working throughout Africa, currently in Kurmala, West Africa. With no money either to pay her current rent or to make it to her next gig in Lagos, Maisie stows away on a freighter which she believes is going across the bay to Lagos. However, it ends up being a river boat heading up stream. The only passenger aboard is American Michael Shane, a former M.D. who seems to be angry at the world about his life. He is heading back to his rubber plantation, which he got for a song since no other white man wanted to cultivate this remote piece of property. When Maisie is found aboard, it's hate at first sight between Maisie and Michael. Maisie also learns that she cannot get off the boat until they dock at their end point, which is far away from where she wants to go. However, they end up docking sooner than expected as, in the middle of the jungle, the boat experiences mechanical difficulties, which ends up taking weeks to repair. In the meantime, Michael and Maisie are forced to hike miles through the jungle to spend their time at the medical station associated with the Atkinson Rubber Plantation. Michael knows the route well since this station was his last post as a doctor two years ago, where he spent five years. Dr. John McWade is the current physician and researcher, who lives there with his wife, Kay. Eventually, Maisie learns about Michael's past life as a doctor and perhaps why he gave it up. But she can also see that although John and Kay love each other, Kay, who has not mentioned it to John, is unhappy at being so isolated from the life she knew and felt comfortable with in the US. These issues lead to a difficult situation between the four, especially as Kay starts to fall for the womanizing Michael. However, they may have bigger worries as John's focus on research has led to the neglect of the locals, who are reverting back to the use of witch doctors. The witch doctors will do anything, including kill the white intruders, to retain their power over the superstitious locals. Playing into those superstitions is the only way the four may be able to save themselves.—Huggo
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