This film was produced in Cinecitta, Rome, in parallel Italian and German versions with different actors (like they did in the early sound film days). I watched the German version, starring Sybille Schmitz.
Set on some pseudonymed island, possibly a British colony, where malaria suddenly strikes hard. A young male doctor out in a jungle camp (which gets attacked by gruesome jungle aborigines) researching mosquitoes, a young female doctor in the city...
A replacement doctor "Dos Passos" arrives by ship, constantly followed by an American reporter, who tries to remember where he has seen him before...
Quite dramatic, somewhat racist, with otherwise decent production values as needed for an escapist movie to make viewers forget the real WW2 outside. Not a highlight of cinematic history, but interesting in the context I mentioned.
Set on some pseudonymed island, possibly a British colony, where malaria suddenly strikes hard. A young male doctor out in a jungle camp (which gets attacked by gruesome jungle aborigines) researching mosquitoes, a young female doctor in the city...
A replacement doctor "Dos Passos" arrives by ship, constantly followed by an American reporter, who tries to remember where he has seen him before...
Quite dramatic, somewhat racist, with otherwise decent production values as needed for an escapist movie to make viewers forget the real WW2 outside. Not a highlight of cinematic history, but interesting in the context I mentioned.