In a boring drama about mining South Africa for all its natural resources, Walter Huston stars as the title character, the real life founder of many South African colonies. Sure, it's a typical role for the grand actor who excels in boisterous characters, but the movie is so boring, it could easily have been paired down. And since it's only seventy minutes, it probably already was paired down.
The start of the movie shows an ill Walter getting a death sentence if he doesn't take it easy and slow down. Of course he doesn't, and a title card comes up displaying "Ten Years Later". He's fit and healthy, and raring to go. Diamond mining, colonizing, farming, setting up towns, dealing with politicians-none of these things fall under the category of taking it easy, but Walter does all these things. As a result, Rhodesia was named after him, and the production was filmed there. Personally, I never find these types of movies very interesting, and not even Walter Huston could help me out.