Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Cinematography
Charles Lang's Oscar-nominated Technicolor makes Kenya impossibly lush.
Costume
Tierney's 'native' wardrobe — Hollywood brownface as haute couture.
Director
Henry Hathaway
Bruce Cabot
William Crawford
George Sanders
Major A.L. Coombes
Gene Tierney
Graham 'Zia' Fletcher
Reginald Gardiner
Lieutenant Roddy Turner
Joseph Calleia
Pallini
Carl Esmond
Jan Kuypens
Harry Carey
Dewey
Marc Lawrence
Abdi Hammud
Cedric Hardwicke
l'évêque Coombes
Gilbert Emery
Ashburton
Dorothy Dandridge
Kipsang's Wife
Gibson Gowland
Churchgoer in Wheelchair (uncredited)
Woody Strode
Tribal Policeman (uncredited)
Jeni Le Gon
Miriami
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tierney hated the role and her 'native' makeup so much she tried to quit; Darryl Zanuck threatened to suspend her contract.
Shot in 1941 but released after Pearl Harbor, making its 'Nazis in Africa' plot suddenly urgent propaganda — the film's colonial politics got far less scrutiny than its anti-fascism.
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