A 50s adventure where the real star is an elephant named Odongo and Rhonda Fleming's cheekbones.
Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) is a hardboiled hunter who catches and keeps wild animals in an African sanctuary in order to sell them to zoos and circuses. When he hires a new veterinarian named "P.J. Muir," he does not imagine that the "P" stands for Pamela, played by the gorgeous Rhonda Fleming!
Practical Effects
Real African locations and actual elephants on screen
Costume
Rhonda Fleming's impossibly crisp safari couture
Director
John Gilling
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Earl Cameron was one of Britain's first major Black film stars; his role here as dignified sanctuary foreman Hassan was rare positive representation for 1956.
Shot on location in Kenya, this was part of a brief 1950s wave of British 'exotic Africa' pictures that romanticized colonial presence while using actual African landscapes.
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