OG (1952)

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OG (1952)

Release Date:  April 5, 1952 / Life Theater

Produced by Premiere Productions

Cast:  Leila Morena, Jesus Ramos, Lopito, Oscar Keese

Direction:  Cesar Gallardo

Source:  Literary Song-Movie Magazine

               April 1952

              (courtesy of Simon Santos, Video 48)

           

    

       A RICH COUPLE, while traveling aboard a ship to the South, are robbed of their costly jewelry by a bunch of Moro sea raiders.  One of the raiders take fancy of their only son, and takes him away as a captive.  Despite frantic efforts of the family and the authorities to locate the raiders and to recover the child, the whereabouts of the bandits remain unknown for years.  In the meantime, the raiders reach the safety of their lair deep in the fastness of the Mindanao forests.  Here, the child is brought up in the belief that the raider who has captured him and who has begun to develop a paternal affection for him is his father.  The looted wealth begins to create suspicions and dissensions among the bandits, and soon they are fighting each other for its possession.  In the intramural struggles that ensue, the bandit group is being decimated.  The bandit who has adopted the boy is among the last killed, and he is one of the few who know the secret hiding place of the loot.  Before he dies, he takes his adopted son to the place where the loot is hidden.  Left to his own resources, the child grows up into a jungle Lord without the companionship of man.  In one of his daily wanderings, as a young man, he sees a beautiful damsel by a stream washing clothes.  Out of curiosity, he captures her, and takes her away to share his jungle home.  After overcoming her initial fear, the girl begins to like the jungle Lord, and soon they are fast friends, with the village girl teaching him a few fundamentals in the National Language besides the guttural "Og-og" which he had thought was sufficient grammatical requirement for himself.  As a gift to his new friend, he gives her part of the loot, just on time to save the family from a financial trouble.  The costly pearls excite curiosity among the people, and soon there is confirmation of its unlawful source.  At the request of the village girl, Og comes to town to save the father from jail, but is captured instead.  He makes his escape good, but the news of the jewels and the jungle Lord spread fast, and the parents of the child who had been lost 20 years ago come to Mindanao for verification.  It's the boy all right, and also the gems are the same ones stolen years ago, and a marriage of the village lass and Og is in order with happy parents footing the bill.

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