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Orlando Martins is a Actor born on 8 december 1899 at Lagos (Nigeria)
Orlando Martins (1899–1985) was a pioneering Nigerian film and stage actor. In the late 1940s, he was one of England's most prominent and leading "black" actors, and in a poll conducted in 1947, he was listed among England's top 15 favorite actors.
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Kongi's Harvest (1970)
, 1h25Directed by Ossie Davis
Origin Nigeria
Genres Drama
Actors Orlando Martins, Ossie Davis
Roles Dr. Gbenga
Rating61%
President Kongi (Soykina), the dictator of an African developing nation, is trying to modernize his nation after deposing King Oba Danlola (Onikoyi). The different tribes are resisting unification, so he tries to reach his goal by any means necessary, including forcing government officials to wear traditional African outfits and seeking advice from the man he deposed. He demands tribute from Danlola in the form of a yam, an important food in the culture. Danlola's former lover Segi brings the dictator the head of her father as sacrifice.
Mister Moses (1965)
, 1h53Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Robert Mitchum, Carroll Baker, Ian Bannen, Alexander Knox, Raymond St. Jacques, Reginald Beckwith
Roles Chief
Rating60%
Beaten and expelled by African villagers for trying to cheat them, the unconscious Joe Moses drifts down a river where he is discovered by the natives of another village. This tribe is being pressured to move by the District Officer (Ian Bannen) as their land will be flooded by the release of waters from a dam; but they refuse to leave their homes. Deeply Christian, the villagers compare Joe Moses to the real Moses due to his discovery in the reeds as was the baby Moses. With a broken leg and no money, Joe Moses is trapped in the village.
Sammy Going South (1963)
, 1h58Directed by Alexander Mackendrick
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Constance Cummings, Harry H. Corbett, Zia Mohyeddin, Orlando Martins, John Turner
Roles Abu Lubaba
Rating70%
Ten-year-old English boy Sammy Hartland (Fergus McClelland) lives in Port Said, Egypt, with his parents. When they are killed in a bombing during the Suez Crisis, the boy flees the city in the ensuing panic. He sets out to reach his only living relative, an aunt who lives 5000 miles to the south in Durban, South Africa - at the other end of the continent and in a different hemisphere. Along his journey Sammy encounters a colourful array of characters. His first "guide" is an Arab peddler who dies in a freak accident.
Sapphire (1959)
, 1h25Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about racism
Actors Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, Earl Cameron, Bernard Miles, Olga Lindo
Roles Barman
Rating71%
The film is about a pregnant girl found stabbed on Hampstead Heath. Although she appears to be white, her brother (Earl Cameron) arrives at the police station to give evidence and he is black. It then becomes evident to the police officers that this girl has been passing for white. This film reveals the underlying insecurities and fears of ordinary people that exist towards another race.
Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959)
, 1h31Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Martin Boddey, Allan Cuthbertson, Grégoire Aslan, Donald Pleasence
Roles Chief
Rating55%
À la fin des années, Robert Adamson, un ingénieur pour la Mombassa Railroad Company, voyage vers l'Afrique pour travailler au chemin de fer qui traverse le veld en direction du Lac Victoria. Sur le même bateau, se trouvent Jane Carlton, à la recherche de son père et de son fiancé qui travaillaient pour la même compagnie et qui sont portés disparus, et Pasha, un jeune Arabe qui retourne chez lui après des études en Angleterre. Jane et Robert sont accueillis à Mombasa par "Hooky" Hook. Ce dernier leur explique qu'ils ont disparu près du territoire d'une tribu hostile, les Warush. Lorsque Hooky suggère que des esclavagistes arabes puissent être impliqués, Robert décide d'aller voir leur chef Ben Ahmed. Il y est accueilli par Pasha, qui s'avère être le fils de Ben Ahmed. Robert est reçu par Ben Ahmed et Gunther, qui construit une ligne de chemins de fer concurrente dans le but de transporter des esclaves vers la côte. Robert demande à Ben Ahmed de l'aider à recruter des porteurs mais ce dernier refuse et propose au contraire à Robert de travailler pour eux. Robert rejette leur offre et s'en va.
The Nun's Story (1959)
, 2h29Directed by Fred Zinnemann, Sergio Leone, Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion
Actors Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Mildred Dunnock, Dean Jagger
Roles Kalulu
Rating74%
Gabrielle "Gaby" Van Der Mal (Audrey Hepburn), whose father Hubert (Dean Jagger) is a famous surgeon in Belgium, enters a convent of nursing sisters in the late 1920s in the hopes of eventually becoming a missionary nursing sister in the Belgian Congo. After being given the name of Sister Luke and undergoing a postulancy and novitiate which foreshadow her future difficulties with the vow of obedience, she takes her first vows and is sent to a school of tropical medicine.
The Naked Earth (1958)
, 1h37Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Richard Todd, Juliette Gréco, John Kitzmiller, Finlay Currie, Laurence Naismith, Orlando Martins
Roles Tribesman
Rating70%
L'action se déroule à la fin du XIX siècle, en Afrique de l'Est. Le Britannique Danny Halloran y vient pour retrouver un ami cultivateur de tabac et dont il n'a plus de nouvelles. Il découvre que ce dernier est décédé en laissant une veuve, Maria. Danny tombe amoureux de la jeune femme, ce qui le détermine à s'installer au pays, à épouser Maria et à reprendre l'exploitation de son ami défunt. Le rapport des cultures s'avère insuffisant, alors il se lance dans la chasse aux crocodiles pour le commerce lucratif de leurs peaux...
Abandon Ship (1957)
, 1h37Directed by Richard Sale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, Stephen Boyd, Moira Lister, Marie Lohr
Roles Sam Holly
Rating74%
The luxury liner SS Crescent Star sinks in seven minutes after striking a rogue mine in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, taking with her nearly all of the 1156 people on board. Twenty-seven of the survivors converge on a single lifeboat designed to accommodate only nine. The dying captain passes command to executive officer Alec Holmes (Tyrone Power). Holmes then learns from "Sparks" Clary (John Stratton), the ship's radio operator, that both transmitters were destroyed before a call for help could be sent. Holmes decides to try to reach the nearest land, Africa, 1500 miles away.
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
, 1h17Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Films about children, Le thème de l'enfant sauvage, Films about apes, L'enfance marginalisée, Tarzan films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Gordon Scott, Robert Beatty, Yolande Donlan, Betta St. John, Wilfrid Hyde-White, George Coulouris
Roles Oparian Chieftain Ogonoore
Rating56%
An airplane crashes in the jungle, stranding passengers Gamage Dean (Yolande Donlan), Diana Penrod (Betta St. John), "Doodles" Fletcher (Wilfrid Hyde-White), Carl Kraski (George Coulouris), and Dick Penrod (Peter Arne). Before the plane slides into a gorge the group is rescued by Tarzan (Gordon Scott), who undertakes to lead them back to civilization. Diana is kidnapped by warriors from Opar under Chief Ogonooro (Orlando Martins). The Oparians desire the strangers as sacrifices for their lion god. She is recovered by Tarzan and hunter Tusker Hawkins (Robert Beatty), whose advances Diana rebuffs. Secretly, however, Hawkins is in league with the Oparians, and plans to sell the castaways to the natives for a fortune in ivory. Tarzan, rightly suspecting Hawkins' untrustworthiness, exposes his treachery. Now openly in league with the natives, the hunter helps them take the white party captive in Tarzan's absence. The ape man returns to save them before the sacrifice can take place, aided by his chimpanzee ally Cheeta, who sets fire to the native village. He then leads them to the safety of a nearby settlement. Hawkins meets his fate at the hands of the Oparians, to whom Tarzan has signaled his double-dealing by a creative use of jungle drums.
Safari (1956)
, 1h30Directed by Terence Young
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Roland Culver, Earl Cameron, Liam Redmond
Roles Jerusalem
Rating56%
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.
Simba (1955)
, 1h39Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Donald Sinden, Basil Sydney, Marie Ney, Joseph Tomelty
Roles Headman
Rating61%
Alan Howard (Dirk Bogarde) visits Kenya to see his brother, who he discovers has been murdered by Mau Mau.
West of Zanzibar (1954)
Directed by Harry Watt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Anthony Steel, Sheila Sim, Orlando Martins, William Simons, Martin Benson, Peter Illing
Roles M'Kwongi
Rating57%
The rural African Galana tribe move to Mombasa following a drought. The tribe's peaceful ways are destroyed by the influence of illegal ivory traders. Game warden Bob Payton turns detective, travelling to Zanzibar to discover the ringleader behind the ivory smuggling. Payton tracks his quarry through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory. Despite obstacles which include crocodiles and rhinos, Payton finally corners the villain. The gang's ringleader has given an African tribe land in return for ivory tusks, but he is repaid for his scheming when the tribe turns on him.
Where No Vultures Fly (1951)
Directed by Harry Watt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender, Meredith Edwards, William Simons, Orlando Martins
Roles M'Kwongwi
Rating61%
The film is set in East Africa. It is about a game warden called Bob Payton (Anthony Steel). He is horrified by the destruction of wild animals by ivory hunters. He establishes a wildlife sanctuary. He is attacked by wild animals and must contend with a villainous ivory poacher (Harold Warrender).
The Hasty Heart (1949)
, 1h42Directed by Vincent Sherman, Cliff Owen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Richard Todd, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Anthony Nicholls, Perry King, Howard Marion-Crawford
Roles Blossom
Rating72%
In Burma during the Pacific War in 1945, a group of wounded Allied soldiers are at makeshift British military hospital in the jungle. As they've all been there for quite some time, they have a strong bond. "Yank" (Ronald Reagan) is the lone American there, recovering from malaria, along with Tommy (Howard Marion-Crawford), the Englishman, Kiwi (Ralph Michael), the New Zealander, Digger (John Sherman), the Australian, and Blossom (Orlando Martins), the African. They are all under the care of the friendly nurse, Sister Margaret Parker (Patricia Neal).
Good-Time Girl (1948)
, 1h21Directed by David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom, Bonar Colleano, Peter Glenville, Diana Dors
Roles Kolly
Rating64%
The film opens with Miss Thorpe, the chairman of the Juvenile court, giving advice to troubled teenager Lyla Lawrence. Miss Thorpe tells Lyla that her life has a similar beginning to that of Gwen Rawlings.