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167. 21K views 2 months ago. Safari is a 1956 British CinemaScope adventure film directed by Terence Young and set during the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. It stars Victor Mature, Janet Leigh,...
During the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya in the 1950s, settler-hunter Ken Duffield is a hired guide for a lion hunting party but he also hopes to find th...
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Safari: Directed by Terence Young. With Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, John Justin, Roland Culver. During the Mau Mau Uprising in British Kenya in the 1950s, settler-hunter Ken Duffield is a hired guide for a lion hunting party but he also hopes to find the Mau Mau rebel who killed his family.
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While American white hunter Ken Duffield (Victor Mature) is off leading a safari, Mau Mau rebels attack his farm, slaughtering the labourers and his livestock. Duffield's young son Charlie and Aunt May (Estelle Brody) defend their home against the mass attack but they do not know that their houseboy Jeroge (a corruption of Njoroge) (Earl Cameron) i...
Development
Rhonda Fleming was originally announced for the female lead and the producers were hoping to get Humphrey Bogartto star. Location filming in Kenya began in June 1955 before the film had been cast. Victor Mature had signed a two-picture contract with Warwick Films and he was assigned to the lead. He was meant to make Zarak but ended up making Safarifirst.
Shooting
Andy Worker said he had to get Victor Mature drunk before the actor would get on the plane as he was so afraid of flying. Filming began 1 August 1955 in Elstree Studios in London. Five weeks later the unit transferred to Kenya for location shooting. The film was shot on location in Kenya simultaneously with John Gilling's Odongo with the Zanzibar-born child actor Juma repeating his role as Odongo. In an interview in 1997, Janet Leigh recalled that the film's second unitwas actually attacked b...
The film premiered on 6 April 1956 at the Empire Cinema in London, and the reviewer for The Timeswas not very favourable, in a review titled "'Safari': An American film about the Mau Mau": "Surely it is neither priggish nor pompous to find something disagreeable in the idea of so horrifying an episode as the Mau Mau terrorism in Kenya serving as ma...
Safari at IMDbSafari at the British Film Institute[better source needed]Safari at the British Board of Film Classification1 hr 31 min. 5.6 (626) Safari is a 1956 adventure film starring Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, and John Justin. Directed by Terence Young, the film takes place in Kenya and follows a group of hunters on a safari expedition.
NR 1 hr 30 min Jun 20th, 1956 Adventure. Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of...
