Two vehicles lurch across the east African bush, carrying an ill-assorted party of prospectors who have formed a syndicate to search for uranium deposits. As their four-week window for digging starts to close, trouble soon starts amongst the group and there are some sinister 'accidents'... It is obvious that one of the party is trying to sabotage the expedition; but who?
Direction
Goode wrings maximum tension from minimal resources.
Production
Authentic East African locations add sweaty realism.
Acting
Sylvester's sweaty desperation anchors the paranoia.
Director
Frederick Goode
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Frederick Goode directed only three features; this was his most commercially ambitious attempt at Hitchcock-style suspense.
Shot during the height of 1960s uranium speculation, when private prospectors actually did form syndicates across colonial Africa. The film's cynicism about human greed reflects post-colonial anxieties rarely addressed in British genre cinema of the era.
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