In Kenya, in 1903, when escaped murderer Abel McCracken instigates the Nukumbi tribe to raid white settlements, colonist John Gale organizes a human hunt to capture McCracken.In Kenya, in 1903, when escaped murderer Abel McCracken instigates the Nukumbi tribe to raid white settlements, colonist John Gale organizes a human hunt to capture McCracken.In Kenya, in 1903, when escaped murderer Abel McCracken instigates the Nukumbi tribe to raid white settlements, colonist John Gale organizes a human hunt to capture McCracken.
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- TriviaThe film takes place in 1903.
- GoofsWhen the baby elephant is separated from its mother, at least three different sources were used. The tusks and backgrounds are different in each view, and the one post-shot has no tusks at all,
- Quotes
Abel McCracken: Dan, why did you come?
Dan Harder McCracken: To prove the things they said about my brother weren't true.
Abel McCracken: [Listening to the natives dancing] They have a dance for everything. Birds... death... sickness. That's how they solve their problems. What about us, Dan. Dance is not going to help us much, is it?
Dan Harder McCracken: Come on back with me, Abe.
Abel McCracken: Come back?
Dan Harder McCracken: Listen to me, Abe. I've saved a little money. We can hire a lawyer, doctors. We can plead insanity.
Abel McCracken: Insanity? Insanity, is it?
[Grabs a rifle]
Abel McCracken: Do you see these? These guns? So long as I have them, well, one bullet, with these hands, I'll fight to keep alive. Aye, there's madness for you. I'll soak this country in blood, Dan. But, by heaven, Abel McCracken is gonna live.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Dangerous (1995)
One of the colourful , moving and action features that Universal International Pictures trotted out with polish , professionality and much regularity in the 50s . It bears resemblance to another Universal film titled Congo crossing (56) by Joseph Pevney with George Nader , Virginia Mayo and Peter Lorre . It's a quickie with lack luster and low budget but it manages to be at least an enjoyable adventure movie because of it contains noisy action, sensational outdoors and outlandish as well as risked situations abound . There's some fascinating in watching the dangerous aventures of the motley group , being surrounded by anger tribes and perilous animals , but using stocks originally shot since former films . We are seeing several African animals though the most turn out to be taken from an excessive utilization of stock-shots , such as : Elephants , Gnus, , Crocodiles, Hippo , lions , and a sympathetic chimpanzee . And a leopard attacking a donkey , too . Van Heflin gives a fine acting as John Gale who organizes a human hunt to capture an ominous enemy . His is about the only enthusiastic actor from a tired-looking cast , that also includes a few notorious secondaries . McCracken is well played by Jeff Morrow as a colonist who who is stirring up the Nukumbi . Ruth Roman plays the damsel in distress , while Howard Duff performs the good brother facing off the bad sibling .
This action and adventure movie set in an African country was professionally directed by Andre De Toth . At his beginnings De Toth entered the Hungarian film industry, obtaining work as a writer, editor , second unit director and actor before finally becoming a director. He directed a few films just before the outbreak of WW II, when he fled to England . Alexander Korda gave him a job there, and when De Toth emigrated to the US in 1942 , Korda got him a job as a second unit director on Jungle Book (1942) . Andre De Toth was a classical director , Western usual (Indian fighter, Man in the saddle , Ramrod , Last of Comanches , The stranger wore a gun), but also made Peplum (Gold for the Caesar) and adventure (The Mongols , Morgan the pirate , Tanganyika) . Probably his best known film is House of wax (1953) , a Vincent Price horror film shot in 3D . The picture obtained limited success , but it results to be enough agreeable. Rating : 5.5/10 . It's relentless routine , but also a good stuff for young people and exotic adventures lovers who enjoy enormously with the extraordinary danger in the lush jungle.
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- Jul 10, 2019
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- Tanganjika
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,300,000
- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.00 : 1