Synopsis
She was too dangerous to love!
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
1941 Directed by Henry Hathaway
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Gene Tierney George Sanders Bruce Cabot Harry Carey Joseph Calleia Reginald Gardiner Carl Esmond Marc Lawrence Cedric Hardwicke Gilbert Emery Dorothy Dandridge Gibson Gowland Woody Strode Jeni Le Gon Emmett Smith William Broadus Ivan Browning Frank Clarke Frederick Clarke Eddie Das William R. Dunn Al Duvall Riccardo Freda Wesley Gale Jester Hairston Darby Jones Walter Knox Tetsu Komai Lawrence LaMarr Show All…
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"The Senshi are given guns, they're being smuggled to them."
Bill Crawford (Bruce Cabot), a District Commissioner in British East Africa, is eager to study the Senshi, a local tribe. However, the Senshi have recently become hostile. When Major Coombes (George Sanders) joins him, Crawford finds out someone has been smuggeling weapons to the Senshi. Then, Zia (Gene Tierney), owner of a series of trading posts, arrives ...
Sundown is a war film directed by Henry Hathaway, written by Barré Lyndon, based on his own novel of the same name.
This was only Gene Tierney's fifth film, and she's now billed first, although it feels like the screenwriters had trouble finding something really useful to do for her in the…
'She's the most dangerous woman in Africa! Too beautiful... too alluring to be trusted... she was there when that shot rang out of the desert night and started one of the most dangerous manhunts you've ever seen..' (Excerpt from one of the poster taglines used for Sundown)
Hollywood studios often liked to indulge themselves with absurdly exotic cod melodramas and this oddity is no different with a by-the-book, stiff upper lip George Sanders fighting for king and country in wartime Kenya (but filmed in New Mexico) alongside King Kong's nemesis Bruce Cabot and Reginald Gardiner as they attempt to deal with restless natives and try to foil some gun-running by unseen Axis powers and their dastardly Dutch representative (Carl Esmond)…
Found this Henry Hathaway war film on Tubi and watched it for George Sanders and Joseph Calleia, two favorites, who have a pretty good face-off. … The movie, set in East Africa, was shot in California and New Mexico with camels, monkeys, and a passing ostrich. … Calleia is less restrained than usual (wondered for a bit if he thought he was in a comedy), and Sanders maybe more restrained. (Thinking of other Sanders movies where, unlike this one, he’s the Nazi.) … It’s not a great print and captioning would have helped with the sound, but the movie was nominated for a cinematography Academy Award (Charles Lang, 18 noms, one win) and two other Oscars. … A very young Gene Tierney. … “Wow, that was Dorothy Dandridge.” … Woody Strode’s first role. … Reginald Gardiner. … Think I liked it more as historical artifact. The ending becomes a rally the homefront just months before Pearl Harbor.
im so uncertain as to whether anything actually happened. couldn't tell you a single plot point and i watched the whole thing
Literally only watching for Gene Tierney and have absolutely no idea what she was doing. It’s a weird Kenyan set WWI adventure with a plot that’s got something to do with gun smuggling. Looks pretty authentic considering it was obviously filming on the studio backlot. That clumsy plot twist near the end introduced solely our two leads can marry 🙄
White people try to bring Africa up to speed in this film shot in New Mexico, where some of the African natives sound like they just stepped out of Gone With the Wind. Watch it on Youtube because the captions make it hilarious, e.g. there's an African soldier named "Bangable".
i only watched this for gene and i did not pick up on a single thing that happened otherwise
A WWII story set in Kenya (which was a British colony at the time) where British soldiers are stationed. They’re dealing with an issue where a local tribe is receiving a lot of firepower from a mysterious source and posing a threat.
I’m not big on war films so keep that in mind, but this didn’t do much for me. The threat seemed somewhat nebulous to me. The reveal of who was providing guns to the tribe wasn’t that exciting. The parts I did enjoy were George Sanders’s (The Saint films, The Son of Monte Cristo, Man Hunt) performance, which was interesting because he was usually playing sarcastic, witty leading men in B films or Nazi villains at that time,…
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Not much to say other then…….MEH.
🔚Please Murder Me (1956)
🔜The Painted Smile (1962)
This film was quite liberal for its time, what with its stance regarding racial discrimination, anti-war mentality, humane treatment of your fellow men as your prisoners, etc.
Visually, the film looks very authentic and exotic. I was perplexed as to how they managed to take the actors all the way down to nowhere in Africa, in the middle of WWII (1940.) But then someone who had read about the filming told me that, "it was shot in Mojave and some other parts of Southwest USA, (which is why it looks so good.)"
Another interesting aspect of the movie is that the tail end of the story has a little bit of Indiana Jones feel to it, a la The Last Crusade.
Plus you get to see an utterly gorgeous 21-year-old Tierney in her third screen presence.
All in all, nothing exceptional, but competent and entertaining enough, for sure.
Henry Hathaway’s war drama in which an enigmatic Somaliland instinctive woman supports the British in contradiction of the Nazis in 1941. Starring Gene Tierney and George Sanders.
The story concerns William Crawford (Bruce Cabot), a British officer positioned in East Africa throughout the Second World War. His garrison is deliberately significant in the conflict effort and is continuously under risk of assault.
Jan Kuypens (Carl Esmond), a Dutch scientist, and an enigmatic woman named Zia (Gene Tierney) pursue shelter in William’s fort. Zia discloses Jan is a conspirator, leaving William and his corresponding British soldiers with no option but to shield the fort from Kuypens, or permit it to fall into the hands of the Nazis.
Gene Tierney gives an…