Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope 119m
Director: Cy Endfield
Cast: Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Harry Andrews, Susannah York
Synopsis:
A plane crashlands in the Kalahari Desert, and the motley survivors take shelter in a valley, at the mercy of scavenging baboons and one of their number who has turned hunter-gatherer.
Review:
Still the most chilling indictment of man's baser nature ever put in an adventure-thriller context, with everyone's humanity stripped back to the bare essentials, and the baboons a constant presence to remind us of what makes us human, or ought to. It cannot have been a comfortable shoot either, but the cinematography is worthy of high praise. This was presumably where Baker and Endfield persuaded Levine to spend the money from Zulu!
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope 119m
Director: Cy Endfield
Cast: Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Harry Andrews, Susannah York
Synopsis:
A plane crashlands in the Kalahari Desert, and the motley survivors take shelter in a valley, at the mercy of scavenging baboons and one of their number who has turned hunter-gatherer.
Review:
Still the most chilling indictment of man's baser nature ever put in an adventure-thriller context, with everyone's humanity stripped back to the bare essentials, and the baboons a constant presence to remind us of what makes us human, or ought to. It cannot have been a comfortable shoot either, but the cinematography is worthy of high praise. This was presumably where Baker and Endfield persuaded Levine to spend the money from Zulu!
Country: GB/US
Technical: col/scope 119m
Director: Cy Endfield
Cast: Stanley Baker, Stuart Whitman, Harry Andrews, Susannah York
Synopsis:
A plane crashlands in the Kalahari Desert, and the motley survivors take shelter in a valley, at the mercy of scavenging baboons and one of their number who has turned hunter-gatherer.
Review:
Still the most chilling indictment of man's baser nature ever put in an adventure-thriller context, with everyone's humanity stripped back to the bare essentials, and the baboons a constant presence to remind us of what makes us human, or ought to. It cannot have been a comfortable shoot either, but the cinematography is worthy of high praise. This was presumably where Baker and Endfield persuaded Levine to spend the money from Zulu!