A dark, often violent, tale of rebellion on the plains of Kenya. It was filmed as a mixture of location and studio sets, with doubles for the long shots in Africa and poor back-projection for the stars on-set in London. This is a major distraction, although by the end I was more or less able to suspend my disbelief. Bogarde is also somewhat miscast, he just does not seem the rough African settler type. Despite these shortcomings, it is an engrossing film of masters and slaves in colonial Africa.
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