The South African businessman David Swansey is delivering illegal German helicopters to Rhodesia. That makes the patriot Gideon Marunga an angry man.
Acting
Richard Roundtree elevating trash material with sheer gravitas.
Production
Shot during actual Rhodesian Bush War—location danger seeps through.
Director
James Fargo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed illegally in Rhodesia after the production was banned from South Africa for political sensitivity. The crew had military escorts.
One of the few Western films to engage with Rhodesia's collapsing white minority rule—though mostly as backdrop for white antihero angst. Roundtree reportedly fought rewrites that marginalized Marunga.
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