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What are some good movies set in Africa? A few of my favorites are: 1)Outof Africa, 2) I dreamed of Africa, and 3) Ghost and the Darkness
How about some others?
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Featuring Stuart Whitaker's Oscar winning performance as Idi Amin and up and comer Scottish thespian James McAvoy as an idealistic young doc roped into his orbit.
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"You can safely assume you have created God in your own image when he hates all the same people you do."
Wealthy Brits flee their estates fearing the Germans will win. They settle in Kenya and while their nights away drinking, dancing, and swapping partners. All the fun leads to murder. Based on a true story. Charles Dance, Gretta Sacchi, and Joss Ackland mix it up.
Not on Region 1.
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Complicit Constapo Talibangelical since MMIII
Fonldy remembered as seen in cinema, but not collected on DVD yet.
...by dir. Bob Rafelson ("Five Easy Pieces"!) about British explorers Robert Francis Burton and John Henning Speke in search of the Nile's source. Nice and gritty adventure piece; raw beauty.
"White Hunter, Black Heart" (1990, dir. Clint Eastwood, title role), about John Huston's making "The African Queen". Eastwood really captures Huston's Hollywood charm, savagery and game naivete at once.
Hard to beat Bogie.
Baba-Booey to you all!
Ruark's excellent novel.
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About the massacre of the British at Isandhlwana the day before the Rorke's Drift fight. Not as good as "Zulu", but still interesting with lots of big name talent popping in and out. Shows the POME Victorians at their hubris-filled worst. Reminds me of someone else today.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy - WB Yeats
Seconded. One of the best imperialist pictures.
A little background since the movie offers none:
"In December 1878, the British High Commissioner in South Africa, Sir Henry Bartle Frere, began to antagonise the Zulu chief Cetshwayo kaMpande with the hope of provoking war and conquering the prosperous Zulu nation. War quickly came, but did not go as planned. On January 22, 1879, the Zulus met the British army at Isandhlwana, and the natives won, killing 1300 British and allied troops. In the aftermath the Zulus swept towards the supply station at Rorke's Drift, which they attacked from January 22 to 23, 1879, and which attack forms the subject matter of the film."
Africa adventures were a Hollywood staple until the 1960s. Most were forgetable 'bwana' movies, but some were very good. Just the other night, I saw "Mogambo" on Turner Classics. It's a Clark Gable-Ava Gardner pot-boiler but has a lot of marvelous "Old Africa" stuff including genuine angry gorilla footage that Jane Goodall wouldn't approve of. One of my favorites is Huston's "The Roots of Heaven" with Trevor Howard at his best with Errol Flynn trying to stop elephant hunting. "Naked Prey" is another that holds up well. "King Solomom's Mines" is corny as hell but has a lot of interesting bush and tribal footage...and the late Deborah Kerr in one of her early lead roles.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy - WB Yeats
ostensibly is about AIDS in Africa but it's much, much more.
Needless to say, anything this director makes is well worth the effort to see.
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