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Plot Stranded in the African wilds by a plane crash, a disparate group of passengers' worst enemy isn't weather or wild animals but a fellow traveler. A delayed flight causes several South African travelers to charter a small plane from unctuous pilot Sturdevan (Nigel Davenport). Among the group: Dr. Bondrachai (Theodore Bikel), divorcee Grace Munkton (Susannah York), the crooked Brian O'Brien (Stuart Whitman), the elderly German Grimmelman (Harry Andrews), and mining engineer Mike Bain (Stanley Baker). O'Brien bribes Sturdevan to reroute the flight, so when the plane is brought down in the vast Kalahari by an encounter with a cloud of locusts, no rescue can be expected. A struggle for control begins. After Studevan attacks Grace sexually, he is exiled, and Brian takes over. He attempts to banish Bondrachai and Grimmelman, but the latter objects, and Brian kills him. Only Grace and Mike are left to deal with Brian, but when they think they've got the best of him, he manages to stay alive and stalk them to plot his revenge. Vicious local baboons have a surprise for the increasingly deranged Brian, however-they are hunting the hunter. The film re-teams star/co-producer Baker with his Zulu (1964) writer/director Cy Endfield. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
Review This production from the infamously dictatorial, cigar-chomping megaproducer Joe Levine (made two years after Contempt) is a familiar saga - an adventure yarn that recycles the worn-threadbare clich¨¦ of a party stranded in the wilderness and attempting to survive, to so-so effect. But it has one running thread throughout that touches the sublime: as the marvelously-named Brian O'Brien, B-movie favorite Stuart Whitman gets to play a character so sadistic, vile and nasty that one can't quite believe his actions; his favorite pastimes consist of picking off innocent animals with his gun, torturing baboon chimps with fire, and attempting to strong-arm several other members of the expedition into the grave. Acting like the love child of Charles Manson and Bobby Berosini, O'Brien is an outrageously sick character, and the screenwriters use all of his ills against animals as narrative plants, over the course of the movie's running time. His evil actions build up to one of the most shocking conclusions in B-movie history, as nature itself turns on this sadist and asserts its anger in the most violent and retributive of ways; the surrealistic final sequence (which begins with a Whitman line that neatly foreshadows Roy Scheider's "smile, you..." line in Jaws, and concludes with an image that may have inspired the last shot in Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God) is nothing short of spectacular entertainment, and arguably makes the whole journey that has preceded it worthwhile. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Cast
Stuart Whitman - Brian O'Brien
Stanley Baker - Mike Bain
Susannah York - Grace Monckton
Harry Andrews - Grimmelman
Theodore Bikel - Dr. Bondarahkai Nigel Davenport - Sturdevant; Barry Lowe - Detjens
CreditSeamus Flannery - Art Director, George Provis - Art Director, Robert Porter - Associate Producer, James Smith - Costume Designer, Jack Causey - First Assistant Director, Cy Raker Endfield - Director, John Jympson - Editor, Joseph E. Levine - Executive Producer, Johnny Dankworth - Composer (Music Score), Wally Schneiderman - Makeup, Erwin Hillier - Cinematographer, Geoffrey Helman - Production Manager, Stanley Baker - Producer, Cy Raker Endfield - Producer, Cliff John Richardson - Special Effects, Wally Veevers - Special Effects, Cy Raker Endfield - Screenwriter, William Mulvihill - Book Author
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Sands of the Kalahari
film poster by Frank McCarthy
Directed by
Cy Endfield
Produced by
Stanley Baker
Cy Endfield
Written by
William Mulvihill (novel)
Cy Endfield
Starring
Stuart Whitman
Stanley Baker
Susannah York
Music by
John Dankworth
Cinematography
Erwin Hillier
Distributed by
Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)
1965
Running time
119 min.
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Sands of the Kalahari is a 1965 film British drama film starring Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker, Susannah York, Harry Andrews and Theodore Bikel, based on the 1960 novel by William Mulvihill.[1] The movie was written by Cy Endfield and William Mulvihill and directed by Cy Endfield. It was filmed in South West Africa and Spain and released by Paramount Pictures.
The plot involves a disparate and desperate group of plane crash survivors thrust into the savage environment of a desert region in Southern Africa.
Cast
Stuart Whitman as Brian O'Brien
Stanley Baker as Mike Bain
Susannah York as Grace Munkton
Harry Andrews as Grimmelman
Theodore Bikel as Bondrechai
Nigel Davenport as Sturdevan
The film was originally going to feature Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in the roles played by Stuart Whitman and Susannah York.[2]
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