Congo Maisie (1940)

Set in West Africa, a former doctor (John Carroll) turned rubber plantation owner finds himself stranded along with a showgirl (Ann Sothern) when the steamer they're traveling on breaks down. They take refuge at a medical station while the steamer undergoes lengthy repairs and it's there that he finds himself attracted to the wife (Rita Johnson) of the station's doctor (Shepperd Strudwick). Based on the novel CONGO LANDING by Wilson Collison and directed by H.C. Potter (THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER). The follow up to the surprise hit MAISIE (1939), Sothern's Maisie is almost peripheral to the story for most of the running time as the film concentrates on Carroll's ex-doctor and his attraction to Strudwick's wife. It's an MGM backlot jungle with the usual stereotyping of the natives as superstitious savages waiting to be educated by the white man. It's passable entertainment. Sothern would go on to do eight more Maisie movies for MGM. With J.M. Kerrigan and E.E. Clive.