Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.
Practical Effects
Real lions! Real location shooting! Real problematic everything else!
Acting
Victor Mature's chest hair carries 40% of this film's dramatic weight.
Production
Kenya location footage that cost more than the entire script.
Director
Terence Young
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Earl Cameron was one of the first Black British actors to break through in mainstream cinema; his presence here as the dignified Jeroge accidentally subverts the film's own colonial ideology.
Director Terence Young would later helm Dr. No and From Russia With Love—this safari schlock was his Bond boot camp for exotic locations and dangerous wildlife.
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