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Safari is a British film of genre Adventure directed by Terence Young released in USA on 20 june 1956 with Victor Mature
Safari (1956)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 20 june 1956
Length 1h30
Directed by Terence Young
OriginUnited-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Rating56%
Safari is a 1956 British film, directed by Terence Young and set during the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. Starring Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, Roland Culver, John Justin and Earl Cameron, it was intentionally cast to attract an American audience, by making both the hero and the lead female character Americans played by American actors.
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When American white hunter Ken Duffield (Victor Mature) is off leading a safari, Mau Mau terrorists attack his farm; slaughtering the labourers and livestock. Duffield's son Charlie and Aunt May (Estelle Brody) defend their home against the mass attack but they do not know that their houseboy Jeroge (a poor transliteration of Njoroge) (Earl Cameron) is actually a Mau Mau general. From inside the farmhouse, Jeroge murders Aunt May with a machete and Charlie by repeatedly firing May's rifle into the child.Actors
Victor Mature
(Ken Duffield)
Janet Leigh
(Linda Latham)
John Justin
(Brian Sinden)
Roland Culver
(Sir Vincent Brampton)
Earl Cameron
(Jeroge)
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