Adventure and moving drama/action movie with nice mood, it is a rich, robust and colorful picture, a hell-for-leather stuff. And is set in the 19th century, during the German colonial rule. Victorian railway builder Robert Adamson (Robert Taylor) adventures off into the kitted out with lovable native urchin (Dimech), pretty white lady in distress, Jane Carlton (Anne Aubrey), plus comic relief (Anthony Newley). Adamson finds out that his planned route for the new railroad is passing through some very perilous and unfriendly native tribal areas as well as a competing German railroad company will cause him trouble and prevent him from finishing his railroad. Africa as you've never seen it!. A thousand thrilling African adventures !. More savage than most savage Africa!. See sinister assault of the deadly crocodiles ! Ruthles terror of the slave traders!. Bull elephant attack!. Flamed! Haired beauty!.
Exciting, thrilling picture set in Mombasa in the turbulent Africa during colonial period. It is a rousing, moving, and stirring tale , but rough-edged fare. A compendium of gorgeous outdoors, intrigue, imperialism , colonialism and provocation, regarding African natives, wildlife, feminism, and anything else. The movie is both incident packed and deadly slow: a Richard Thorpe speciality. Evelyn Waugh crossed paths with the production in Kenya, an encounter he described in ¨A tourist in Africa¨. Among the rush of Anglo-American oddities from circa 1960 this encomium for the British Empire at its moment of maximum desintegration from a past splendor is in a class by itself. Stars Robert Taylor playing in his usual style as a railway engineer who arrives in the Kilimanjaro Region to finish building a railroad through hostile territory. He's well accompanied by a pretty good support cast, such as: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Grégoire Aslan, Allan Cuthbertson, Martin Benson, Orlando Martins, Harry Baird and Donald Pleasence.
One of several lively, all-action, color de luxe adventures produced by Britain's Warwick films, in this production company usually played Robert Taylor, Alan Ladd and Victor Mature as stars in the late Fifties .Warwick was set up by Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli, and its main purpose was that it offered an European lifeline to fading Hollywood star. This picture was one of many from Warwick Films which were shot quickly and consequently released, such as: 'The Bandit of Zhobe' (1956) with Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, 'The Man Inside' (1958) with Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, 'Tank Force!' aka 'No Time To Die' (1958) with Victor Mature, Anthony Newley and 'Killers of Kilimanjaro' (1959). The ambient of the country at the time is pretty well shown accompanied by an atmospheric and brilliant cinematography in Technicolor by Ted Moore. As well as thrilling and evocative musical score by William Alwyn and musical director by regular Muir Matheson. Being shot on location in Nairobi National Park, and Nairobi, Kenya for tribal village and exteriors and Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, Inglaterra, Reino Unido for interiors. Lavishly produced by the notorious producers Irving Allen and the famous Albert R. Broccoli who subsequently to finance the successful James Bond series . The motion picture produced by Warwick along with Columbia Pictures was decently directed by Richard Thorpe. He was an ordinary Hollywood crafsman who made routine studio fare until 1950s when he was given more major assignment. He then made various big-budget productions financed by Pando S. Bergman among his best known films are all the MGM Tarzans following his arrival at the studio in 1935 and a series of swashbuckling adventures in the early 1950s featuring Robert Taylor , the most successful of these were three swashbucklers made in England as ¨Knights of Round Table , Ivanhoe and Quentin Durward¨ . Thorpe was an expert on all kind of genres as Western as ¨Vengeance valley , Wild horse , Under Montana skies and Last challenge¨ but his specialty resulted to be adventures as ¨Prisoner of Zenda , The prodigal , Challenge to Lassie , Malaya , Tarzan's secret treasure ,Tarzan escapes , Tarzan finds a son¨ and Musicals as ¨Fun in Acapulco , Rainbow over Broadway , The prince student¨ and his biggest money-maker to date was ¨The great Caruso¨ and his last big box-office hit was ¨Presley' Jailhouse Rock¨ . He also worked briefly in television before retiring in 1968 , his last film was ¨The last challenge'. Rating. 6/10. Acceptable and passable African adventure that will appeal to Robert Taylor fans.
Exciting, thrilling picture set in Mombasa in the turbulent Africa during colonial period. It is a rousing, moving, and stirring tale , but rough-edged fare. A compendium of gorgeous outdoors, intrigue, imperialism , colonialism and provocation, regarding African natives, wildlife, feminism, and anything else. The movie is both incident packed and deadly slow: a Richard Thorpe speciality. Evelyn Waugh crossed paths with the production in Kenya, an encounter he described in ¨A tourist in Africa¨. Among the rush of Anglo-American oddities from circa 1960 this encomium for the British Empire at its moment of maximum desintegration from a past splendor is in a class by itself. Stars Robert Taylor playing in his usual style as a railway engineer who arrives in the Kilimanjaro Region to finish building a railroad through hostile territory. He's well accompanied by a pretty good support cast, such as: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Grégoire Aslan, Allan Cuthbertson, Martin Benson, Orlando Martins, Harry Baird and Donald Pleasence.
One of several lively, all-action, color de luxe adventures produced by Britain's Warwick films, in this production company usually played Robert Taylor, Alan Ladd and Victor Mature as stars in the late Fifties .Warwick was set up by Irving Allen and Albert R. Broccoli, and its main purpose was that it offered an European lifeline to fading Hollywood star. This picture was one of many from Warwick Films which were shot quickly and consequently released, such as: 'The Bandit of Zhobe' (1956) with Victor Mature, Anita Ekberg, 'The Man Inside' (1958) with Jack Palance, Anita Ekberg, 'Tank Force!' aka 'No Time To Die' (1958) with Victor Mature, Anthony Newley and 'Killers of Kilimanjaro' (1959). The ambient of the country at the time is pretty well shown accompanied by an atmospheric and brilliant cinematography in Technicolor by Ted Moore. As well as thrilling and evocative musical score by William Alwyn and musical director by regular Muir Matheson. Being shot on location in Nairobi National Park, and Nairobi, Kenya for tribal village and exteriors and Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, Inglaterra, Reino Unido for interiors. Lavishly produced by the notorious producers Irving Allen and the famous Albert R. Broccoli who subsequently to finance the successful James Bond series . The motion picture produced by Warwick along with Columbia Pictures was decently directed by Richard Thorpe. He was an ordinary Hollywood crafsman who made routine studio fare until 1950s when he was given more major assignment. He then made various big-budget productions financed by Pando S. Bergman among his best known films are all the MGM Tarzans following his arrival at the studio in 1935 and a series of swashbuckling adventures in the early 1950s featuring Robert Taylor , the most successful of these were three swashbucklers made in England as ¨Knights of Round Table , Ivanhoe and Quentin Durward¨ . Thorpe was an expert on all kind of genres as Western as ¨Vengeance valley , Wild horse , Under Montana skies and Last challenge¨ but his specialty resulted to be adventures as ¨Prisoner of Zenda , The prodigal , Challenge to Lassie , Malaya , Tarzan's secret treasure ,Tarzan escapes , Tarzan finds a son¨ and Musicals as ¨Fun in Acapulco , Rainbow over Broadway , The prince student¨ and his biggest money-maker to date was ¨The great Caruso¨ and his last big box-office hit was ¨Presley' Jailhouse Rock¨ . He also worked briefly in television before retiring in 1968 , his last film was ¨The last challenge'. Rating. 6/10. Acceptable and passable African adventure that will appeal to Robert Taylor fans.