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Something of Value is a 1957 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, and Sidney Poitier. The film was reissued under the title Africa Ablaze . The film, based on the book of the same name by Robert Ruark, portrays the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya.
Brief Synopsis. This film depicts the struggles in Kenya to quell the violent uprisings of an organized group of Kikuyu tribespeople, known as Mau Mau, whose aim is to force out the British, white settlers who colonized Kenya in the early 1900s. On 8 Apr 1953, Jomo Kenyatta, an Oxford-educated Kenyan native, is con...
- Elwood G. Price
- Chet Huntley
Something of Value: Directed by Richard Brooks. With Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez. In British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.
- (1.3K)
- Drama, War
- Richard Brooks
- 1957-06
Simba: Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. With Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney. A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
- (470)
- Adventure, Drama
- Brian Desmond Hurst
- 1955-09-09
Currently you are able to watch "Mau-Mau" streaming on Cultpix. Synopsis Newsman Chet Huntley narrates this documentary showing the rise of the African resistance movement known as the "Mau-Mau" against British rule in East Africa in the early 1950s.
- Elwood Price
- 1
- Chet Huntley
6.1. Rate. A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s. Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Virginia McKenna, Basil Sydney, Donald Sinden. Votes: 461.
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William Marshall with his trademark gravitas as "The Leader," rallying a rebel band of Mau Mau, particularly the conflicted Kimani (Sidney Poitier), backed by Njogu (Juano Hernandez), in Something Of Value, directed by Richard Brooks from Robert Ruark's novel about Kenya. Something Of Value (1957) -- (Movie Clip) They Are Brothers.
