A couple of years before KARTHOUM, this good small budget British adventure yarn is very agreeable, as also was FLIGHT OF THE LOST BALOON, SIEGE OF THE SAXONS from the same director Nathan Juran, an American film maker. The mid sixties will be the moment where UK film industry will definitely stop their production of adventure movies, which was a testimony, a mark, of the colonialist past, history of England, the widest empire in the world, all over the planet. The end of British colonialism will also provoke the collapse of the British adventure film genre. It will be replaced by the social "kitchen sink" mode, with directors succh as John Schlesinger, Lindsay Anderson, Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson.... So this very one is pretty enjoyable to watch, but light hearted, for the whole family. However, I highly prefer the awesome KARTHOUM, directed by Basil Dearden. Far darker, violent, much much more powerful.
Review of East of Sudan
