A moving drama/adventure movie with nice mood , it is a rich , robust and colorful picture , a hell-for-leather stuff . However , being full of transparency with the animals out acting the cast . One of the colorful , moving and action features that Hollywood trotted out with polish , professionality and much regularly in the 50s. The plot is simple and light , a wealthy insurance company hires an American insurance investigator (Dana Andrews) to investigate the surprising death of a diamond broker (David Farrar) , insured for $1 million , who swept overboard and drowned in the African coast. As he is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious deeds . Along the way he gathers together with the broker's sweetheart (Jeanne Crain) . They set out to a dangerous expedition through the dangerous jungle and they continue up country closer and closer to find him . In Africa's savage city of outcasts they met un a rendezvous with terror!."The story it took 3 separate safaris to film!"This was his kind of manhunt-all danger-and his kind of woman-somebody else's!Every Green-Hell Frenzy Unleashed From One End of Africa To The Other! It Took 3 Seperate Safaris To Capture This Raging Story!Through screeching jungle haunts, across the veldt of violence, past lion fang and boa coil... they shadowed the 'Dead man of the Transvaal' they had to bring back alive!
African tale full of cliches , thrills , intrigue and some picturesque settings . A passable noirish African adventure in derivative style , dealing with a complex investigation when the insurers are suspicious of the strange death of a broker, as the company sends a claims investigator to resolve the happenings . It has a solid cast that beefs up this standard and enjoyable African jungle story with attractive settings . One of several lively , all-action , color de luxe adventures produced by Warner Bros. or Universal Pictures , in these production companies usually played Tony Curtis , Rock Hudson and Dana Andrews as stars in the late Fifties . It arranges to be , at least , an agreeable adventure movie because of it packs action , breathtaking outdoors and outlandish , risked situaciones abound . It bears remarkable resemblance to other Universal films as ¨Congo Crossing¨ (1956) by Joseph Peveny with Virginia Mayo , George Nader , Michael Pate , Peter Lorre or "Tanganyka" 1954 by Andre De Toth with Van Hefiln , Ruth Roman , Jeff Morrow , Howard Duff or ¨Beyond Mombasa¨ (1956) by George Marshall himself with Cornel Wilde , Donna Reed , Christopher Lee , Leo Genn and produced by Warwick : ¨Safari¨by Terence Young with Victor Mature , Janet Leigh , John Justin . Passable interpretation by Dana Andrews as the agent who is sent by the American insurer to clarify a rare matter . The routine happenings are lit up only by the gorgeous presence of the always beautiful Jeanne Crain and David Farrar as the suspect businessman who allegedly disappeared whilst diving off the African coast . These roles are well accompanied by other important secondaries giving enthusiast interpretations , such as : George Coulouris , Patrick Barr , Mary Merrall , Irene Handl, and , of course , the always sympathetic Wilfrid Hyde-White.
It contains Erwin Hillier's brilliant and elegant Technicolor camerawork , though including some stock shots of animals as Crocs and enormous lions, though a perfect remastering being extremely necessary . The motion picture produced by Associated British-Pathé was professionally directed by George Marshall , though with no originality . Marshall directed Western along half century , his first Western was ¨Wild gold¨(1934) and he subsequently made his masterpiece ¨Destry rides again¨(1939) in which combines action , charmingly natural story , humor and drama ; in 1951 directed a new version under title ¨ Frenchie ¨ with Eddie Murphy and Marie Blanchard in similar characters to James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich . As Marshall introduces comicalness in realist Western , including a little genre satire on the conventional Western thrown in for good measure . As he directed Western with funniness such as ¨Texas¨ also starred by Glenn Ford and Edgar Buchanan . He went on filming parody/western such as ¨Fancy pants¨(1950) , ¨Advance to the rear¨(1964), and musical Western as ¨Red Garters¨and ¨The second greatest sex¨. Others Western he directed are the following : ¨When Dalton rode¨, ¨Valley of the sun¨, ¨The savage¨, ¨Pillars of sky¨, ¨the guns of Fort Petticoat¨ and the episode titled ¨The railway¨ from ¨How the West was won¨. He also directed other genres as comedy with W.C. Fields in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) ; and helped Betty Hutton on her way to stardom with the biopics Incendiary Blonde (1945) and The perils of Paulina (1947); and directed Alan Ladd in the film noir classic The blue dahlia (1946). There was also a fruitful association with Bob Hope, beginning with The Ghost Breaker (1940), among others .
African tale full of cliches , thrills , intrigue and some picturesque settings . A passable noirish African adventure in derivative style , dealing with a complex investigation when the insurers are suspicious of the strange death of a broker, as the company sends a claims investigator to resolve the happenings . It has a solid cast that beefs up this standard and enjoyable African jungle story with attractive settings . One of several lively , all-action , color de luxe adventures produced by Warner Bros. or Universal Pictures , in these production companies usually played Tony Curtis , Rock Hudson and Dana Andrews as stars in the late Fifties . It arranges to be , at least , an agreeable adventure movie because of it packs action , breathtaking outdoors and outlandish , risked situaciones abound . It bears remarkable resemblance to other Universal films as ¨Congo Crossing¨ (1956) by Joseph Peveny with Virginia Mayo , George Nader , Michael Pate , Peter Lorre or "Tanganyka" 1954 by Andre De Toth with Van Hefiln , Ruth Roman , Jeff Morrow , Howard Duff or ¨Beyond Mombasa¨ (1956) by George Marshall himself with Cornel Wilde , Donna Reed , Christopher Lee , Leo Genn and produced by Warwick : ¨Safari¨by Terence Young with Victor Mature , Janet Leigh , John Justin . Passable interpretation by Dana Andrews as the agent who is sent by the American insurer to clarify a rare matter . The routine happenings are lit up only by the gorgeous presence of the always beautiful Jeanne Crain and David Farrar as the suspect businessman who allegedly disappeared whilst diving off the African coast . These roles are well accompanied by other important secondaries giving enthusiast interpretations , such as : George Coulouris , Patrick Barr , Mary Merrall , Irene Handl, and , of course , the always sympathetic Wilfrid Hyde-White.
It contains Erwin Hillier's brilliant and elegant Technicolor camerawork , though including some stock shots of animals as Crocs and enormous lions, though a perfect remastering being extremely necessary . The motion picture produced by Associated British-Pathé was professionally directed by George Marshall , though with no originality . Marshall directed Western along half century , his first Western was ¨Wild gold¨(1934) and he subsequently made his masterpiece ¨Destry rides again¨(1939) in which combines action , charmingly natural story , humor and drama ; in 1951 directed a new version under title ¨ Frenchie ¨ with Eddie Murphy and Marie Blanchard in similar characters to James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich . As Marshall introduces comicalness in realist Western , including a little genre satire on the conventional Western thrown in for good measure . As he directed Western with funniness such as ¨Texas¨ also starred by Glenn Ford and Edgar Buchanan . He went on filming parody/western such as ¨Fancy pants¨(1950) , ¨Advance to the rear¨(1964), and musical Western as ¨Red Garters¨and ¨The second greatest sex¨. Others Western he directed are the following : ¨When Dalton rode¨, ¨Valley of the sun¨, ¨The savage¨, ¨Pillars of sky¨, ¨the guns of Fort Petticoat¨ and the episode titled ¨The railway¨ from ¨How the West was won¨. He also directed other genres as comedy with W.C. Fields in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) ; and helped Betty Hutton on her way to stardom with the biopics Incendiary Blonde (1945) and The perils of Paulina (1947); and directed Alan Ladd in the film noir classic The blue dahlia (1946). There was also a fruitful association with Bob Hope, beginning with The Ghost Breaker (1940), among others .