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[
"I've Got to Sing a Torch Song",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Beasts of No Nation (film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Beasts of No Nation is a 2015 American war drama film written, co-produced, shot, and directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. It follows a young boy who becomes a child soldier as his country experiences a horrific civil war. Shot in Ghana and starring Idris Elba, Abraham Attah, Ama K. Abebrese, Grace Nortey, David Dontoh, and Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, the film is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Uzodinma Iweala, the book itself being named after a Fela Kuti album.
It was screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Marcello Mastroianni Award. The film was shown in the Special Presentation section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, and released on Netflix globally and in a limited release by Bleecker Street on October 16, 2015.Plot
A civil war is breaking out in an unspecified West African country. A young boy, Agu, lives in a small village with his parents, older brother, and younger sibling. Agu's village is located within a "buffer zone" enforced by ECOMOG troops. The village is informed that the government has fallen and military-aligned rebels have seized control of the country. With rebel forces headed towards the village, many people flee to the country's capital for safety. Agu's father buys safe transport for his wife and two youngest children, but has to stay behind with Agu and his eldest son. Rebel and government forces fight in and around Agu's village. While the rebel soldiers flee, government forces round up the remaining villagers and execute them, but Agu evades capture and escapes into the jungle.
After wandering for an unspecified amount of time, Agu is caught up in a guerrilla skirmish. The Native Defense Forces (NDF), a rising rebel faction in the country, adopts Agu into their ranks. Agu's battalion is led by the Commandant, who takes Agu under his wing. Following a brutal initiation process where Agu hacks an innocent captive to death with a machete, Agu becomes a fully-fledged member of the militia. Agu befriends another young NDF child soldier, Strika, who never speaks. One night, the Commandant summons Agu to his quarters and rapes him. Strika, another of the Commandant's rape victims, comforts him. Preacher, an older soldier, gives Agu brown-brown to lift his mood. Agu and Strika take part in a number of bloody battles and ambushes. During one of the raids Agu, under the influence of brown-brown, mistakes a village-woman during a raid for his mother. He exclaims that he found her and clings to her while the other members of the group declare they want to rape her. The woman says not to recognise Agu and he calls her a witch woman. One of the other child soldiers drags the young girl with the woman and stomps the child to death. Agu joins in. He wonders if God sees what he is doing. Agu then shoots the woman while she is being raped on a bed.
The battalion's many victories earn them a summons to the rebel headquarters, where the Commandant, accompanied by Agu, Strika, and a few other soldiers, go to meet with the NDF leader, Dada Goodblood. Goodblood, who stresses the importance of public image in the wake of the conflict becoming world news, denies the Commandant the promotion to General as he had promised, and removes him from command. The Commandant's lieutenant, Two I-C, will take control of the battalion, and the Commandant will be made Deputy Chief of Security under the leader. The Commandant views this as an insult, and leaves to "celebrate" one more night with his men at a brothel. While the soldiers (except for Agu and Strika) spend the night with the brothel's women, one of the women shoots Two I-C. Two I-C accuses the Commandant of orchestrating the incident before dying, while the Commandant insists it must have been a botched attempt against himself. The prostitute professes that it was an accident, but the Commandant and his men shoot the women and leave the city with the battalion.
Now on the run from their own faction as well as their enemies, the battalion suffers heavy losses. Airstrikes and supply shortages kill many of them, including Strika. The remaining members of the battalion take shelter at a gold mine for several months, hoping to find gold to pay for supplies. Ammunition runs out, leaving the group with no way to defend themselves from encroaching enemy forces. Following a confrontation between a frustrated Preacher and paranoid Commandant, Agu and the soldiers all abandon the Commandant to surrender, ignoring his warnings that they will merely be thrown in jail and disowned by their families. Shortly after, they are detained by UN troops.
The younger members of the battalion are sent to a missionary school in a safe part of the country. Preacher and Randy decide to run away to rejoin the war. Agu stays away from the other children, who play games and enjoy the comfort and safety of the school. Agu suffers from drug withdrawal and is tormented by what has happened and has nightmares about it. After much time has passed, Agu tells the school's counselor that he has done some terrible things, which he fears will make her see him as a "beast". Instead he tells of how he used to be a good boy from a family who loved him. The final scene shows Agu finally joining the other boys as they swim and play in the ocean. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Beasts of No Nation (film)",
"based on",
"Beasts of No Nation"
] | null | null | null | null | 17 |
|
[
"The Cohens and Kellys in Africa",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Countdown at Kusini",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Countdown at Kusini (also known as Cool Red) is a 1976 American-Nigerian action/drama film written by Howard Friedlander and Ed Spielman, and directed by Ossie Davis.Synopsis
During a trip to the newly independent nation of Fahari, Africa, Red Salter, an African American jazz musician, falls in love with Leah Matanzima, but she is involved in Fahari's struggle against a puppet government run by multinational corporations. Jealous of Leah's friendship with white British journalist Charles Henderson, Red reluctantly joins her support of revolutionary leader Ernest Motapo and helps her obtain guns from weapons dealer Saidu. When Fahari officials arrest them, Charles rescues Leah and Red; then spirits them away in a motorboat, but Ben Amed, a French mercenary hired to assassinate Motapo, rams them with another boat and kills Charles. Marnie (Yola), Motapo's traitorous nephew, arranges with Amed to ambush Motapo at a railroad junction near Kusini, but Leah and Red arrive in time with revolutionary fighters. After killing Marnie and Amed, Leah welcomes Red to Africa's revolution against European imperialism. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Shaft in Africa",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Shaft in Africa",
"main subject",
"terrorism"
] | null | null | null | null | 6 |
|
[
"Resident Evil 5",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Resident Evil 5 is a 2009 third-person shooter video game developed and published by Capcom. It is a major installment in the Resident Evil series, and was announced in 2005—the same year its predecessor Resident Evil 4 was released. Resident Evil 5 was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles in March 2009 and for Windows in September 2009. It was re-released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in June 2016. The plot involves an investigation of a terrorist threat by Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance agents Chris Redfield and Sheva Alomar in Kijuju, a fictional region of West Africa. Chris learns that he must confront his past in the form of an old enemy, Albert Wesker, and his former partner, Jill Valentine.
The gameplay of Resident Evil 5 is similar to that of the previous installment, though it is the first in the series designed for two-player cooperative gameplay. It has also been considered the first game in the main series to depart from the survival horror genre, with critics saying it bore more resemblance to an action game. Motion capture was used for the cutscenes, and it was the first video game to use a virtual camera system. Several staff members from the original Resident Evil worked on Resident Evil 5. The Windows version was developed by Mercenary Technology.
Resident Evil 5 received a positive reception, despite some criticism for its control scheme. The game received some complaints of racism, though an investigation by the British Board of Film Classification found the complaints were unsubstantiated. As of December 2022, when including the original, special and remastered versions, the game had sold 13.5 million units. It is the best-selling game of the Resident Evil franchise, and the original version remained the best-selling individual Capcom release until March 2018, when it was outsold by Monster Hunter: World. A sequel, Resident Evil 6, was released in 2012. | null | null | null | null | 2 |
[
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Filming
The film was shot on location in Nairobi, Kenya, Cairo, Egypt, and the French Riviera, and studio work was done at Stage 14 in 20th Century Fox Studios. During production, on April 8, 1952, when Peck was carrying Gardner for a scene in the film, Peck wrenched his knee and production had to be postponed for 10 days while he recovered in his Pacific Palisades home, and Hildegard Knef came down with influenza in the studios. She was able though to sing two Cole Porter tunes in the film. Jazz musician Benny Carter performs early on in the film.The bullfight sequences were archive footage, taken from Fox's 1941 film Blood and Sand. Circus animal trainer Pat Anthony replaced Gregory Peck as his stand-in for the hyena attack scene. | null | null | null | null | 2 |
[
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film)",
"based on",
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
] | null | null | null | null | 27 |
|
[
"The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film)",
"main subject",
"Spanish Civil War"
] | null | null | null | null | 34 |
|
[
"Africa Express (film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Africa Express (film)",
"followed by",
"Safari Express"
] | Africa Express is a 1975 Italian adventure film starring Ursula Andress, Giuliano Gemma, and Jack Palance that was filmed in Rhodesia. A sequel Safari Express with the same leads followed a year later. | null | null | null | null | 24 |
[
"El Cid (film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"El Cid (film)",
"main subject",
"El Cid"
] | El Cid is a 1961 epic historical drama film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston. The film is loosely based on the life of the 11th-century Castilian warlord Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called "El Cid" (from the Arabic al-sidi, meaning "The Lord"). The film stars Charlton Heston in the title role and Sophia Loren as Doña Jimena, spelled "Chimene" in the script and pronounced that way (shim-ain) in the film. The screenplay is credited to Fredric M. Frank, Philip Yordan and Ben Barzman, with uncredited contributions by Bernard Gordon.
El Cid premiered on December 6, 1961 at the Metropole Theatre in London, and was released on December 14 in the United States. The film received largely positive reviews praising the performances of Heston and Loren, the cinematography, and the musical score. It went on to gross $26.6 million during its initial theatrical run. It was nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Art Direction, Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and Best Original Song. | null | null | null | null | 58 |
[
"The Cruelest Day",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | The Cruelest Day (Italian: Ilaria Alpi - Il più crudele dei giorni) is a 2003 Italian drama film directed by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani. It is a dramatization of the last days of life of RAI journalist Ilaria Alpi and of her cameraman Miran Hrovatin before they were killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, on March 20, 1994. For her performance Giovanna Mezzogiorno won the Nastro d'Argento for best actress. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Roar (film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Filming
Principal photography began on October 1, 1976, and was initially scheduled to last for six months, but filming was restricted to five months at a time because the cottonwood trees on set turned brown from November until March. Filming the big cats was difficult and frustrating; cinematographer Jan de Bont often spent hours setting up five cameras and waiting for the cats to do something that could be included in the film. This eventually led to Marshall and the crew recording footage in documentary style with up to eight Panavision 35mm cameras. One scene where Marshall and Mativo drive a 1937 Chevrolet containing two tigers took seven weeks to complete, because Glassey and Miller had to train the animals to ride in a car. Marshall often refused to stop filming because he did not want to lose a take; sometimes only one take was usable from a day's filming.The opening footage of Marshall racing a bull giraffe on a motorcycle was filmed in Kenya, with the location acknowledged in the credits. One session involved a leopard licking Hedren's face which had been coated in honey; Hedren considered it to be one of the most dangerous scenes she agreed to film as although handlers were 8 feet (2.4 m) away, they would not have been able to stop the cat from biting her. In the scenes where some of the big cats are shot and killed by hunters, the effect was achieved by filming the animals when they were tranquilized for their annual blood draw.Filming took five years to complete. Although Hedren has claimed that principal photography ended on October 16, 1979, after just over three years, additional pick-up shots were filmed in Kenya during the editing stage. The total production time was 11 years. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Waiting for the Barbarians",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"She (1965 film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | She is a 1965 British adventure film made by Hammer Film Productions in CinemaScope, based on the 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard. It was directed by Robert Day and stars Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John Richardson, Rosenda Monteros, and Christopher Lee. The film was an international success and led to a 1968 sequel, The Vengeance of She, with Olinka Berova in the title role.Plot
After receiving honorable discharges from the British Army in Palestine in 1918, Professor Holly, young Leo Vincey and their orderly Job embark on an expedition into a previously unexplored region of central-east Africa. They discover the lost city of Kuma after Leo receives a mysterious map revealing the city's whereabouts.
This lost realm is ruled by Ayesha, who is also known as "She-Who-Waits" and "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed." Ayesha is a beautiful, immortal queen, who believes Leo is the reincarnation of her former lover, the priest Kallikratees, whom she had killed two thousand years before when she found him in the intimate embrace of another woman. It was she, who met with Leo in Palestine, giving him the map to Kuma, and urging him to travel there. Leo is filled with a dogged determination to do so as he sees visions of Ayesha beckoning to him with outstretched arms.
After Leo has recovered from the journey to Kuma, Ayesha persuades him to bathe in the ceremonial fire that she had bathed in 2,000 years before by which she gained her immortality. One can bathe in the flame only when it has turned blue, which it does rarely for short periods of time when astronomical events coincide. Leo would then himself become immortal.
Meanwhile, Ayesha's army is attacked by her enslaved tribesmen, the Amahagger, who live outside Kuma. Ready to rebel against the queen's cruel tyranny they are incited to revolt by their leader, Haumeid, a citizen of Kuma, whose daughter Ustane dared to fall in love with Leo while nursing him back to health after his perilous journey to the city. The queen in jealousy has her cremated alive in the open molten lava pit before her throne. Her ashes are poured out in front of her outraged father, who cries out to the Amahagger for revenge. Although poorly equipped the Amahagger overcome Ayesha's army.
Leo himself is about to enter the blue ceremonial fire when Billali, Ayesha's high priest, demands to be allowed to enter it to gain immortality as well since he has served the queen unselfishly for many years. He is refused, so he pushes Leo aside in a scuffle that leaves Leo knocked out, opening his way to enter the blue flames. Ayesha kills him with a javelin to prevent this.
To overcome Leo's reluctance Ayesha takes him by the hand and leads him into the blue fire. Upon entering, Leo becomes immortal, but Ayesha's immortality is taken away, and she ages 2,000 years in minutes, dies, and crumbles into dust. Holly and Job have managed to get to Leo through the uprising, and Holly urges him to go once again into the fire to remove his immortality since a second time into the flames would do this as it had done to Ayesha. Unfortunately, the flame turns yellow again barring entry. The film ends with a despondent Leo vowing to wait for the fire to turn blue again that he might end the prospect of spending an eternity alone. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"She (1965 film)",
"based on",
"She: A History of Adventure"
] | null | null | null | null | 21 |
|
[
"The Long Ships (film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"The Long Ships (film)",
"based on",
"The Long Ships"
] | The Long Ships is a 1964 Anglo–Yugoslav adventure film shot in Technirama directed by Jack Cardiff and starring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn and Rosanna Schiaffino.Background
The film was very loosely based on the two volume Swedish novel The Long Ships (1941 and 1945) by Frans G. Bengtsson, retaining little more than the title (of the English translation) and the Moorish settings of Orm's first voyage. Although the protagonist is named Rolfe, the film was released in Sweden with the title Röde Orm och de långa skeppen (Red Orm and the Long Ships), in a further attempt to exploit the popularity of the novel. It was also intended to capitalise on the success of recent Viking and Moorish dramas such as The Vikings (1958) and El Cid (1961) and was later followed by Alfred the Great (1969). | null | null | null | null | 27 |
[
"Tarzan's New York Adventure",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Plot
A cargo aircraft lands atop Tarzan's escarpment in Africa, looking for animals. While trapping lions, the three men aboard meet with Tarzan, Jane, and their adopted son Boy. Watching Boy's tricks with three young elephants, Buck Rand, the head of a circus in the United States, realizes that Boy would be a great act. When they are attacked by natives, who set a large jungle fire, it appears that Tarzan and Jane have perished in that fire. The men take Boy aboard their plane and they take-off, as the natives look on in wonderment. The chimpanzee Cheeta is able to awaken Tarzan and Jane before they are burned to death. Cheeta tells Tarzan that Boy left with the men on the aircraft.
Tarzan, Jane, and Cheeta track across the jungle and, flying across the Atlantic, eventually end up in New York City. Tarzan is befuddled by the lifestyle and gadgetry of civilization and displays his quaint, noble savage ways. He complains about the necessity of wearing clothing, commenting that an opera singer that he hears on a "noisy box", "Woman sick! Scream for witch doctor!", and expressing his wonderment at taxi cabs. Tarzan also comments that various African-Americans he sees making a living throughout New York City are from this or that tribe back in his and Jane's African home.
Tarzan and Jane attempt to get Boy back by legal means. A judge asks Tarzan what he considers to be the important things that he needs to teach his adopted son. Unfortunately, the circus retains an unscrupulous lawyer, who tricks Jane into admitting that Boy was not born in the jungle and is not her actual child, provoking Tarzan into attacking him in the courtroom. Tarzan makes a daring escape out a window onto a ledge, and a rooftop chase by the police immediately follows. This eventually leads to Tarzan being forced to make a spectacular 200 foot high dive from the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River to avoid being arrested.
Tarzan locates the circus where Boy is being held and enlists the aid of the elephants, who have been chained by their ankles to stakes. He calls to them with his jungle yell, and they take their revenge on their tormentors by tearing free from the chains and destroying the circus. In the ensuing bedlam that follows, Tarzan is able to rescue Boy. Before their return to Africa, the judge grants Tarzan and Jane full legal custody of their adopted son. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Tarzan's New York Adventure",
"followed by",
"Tarzan Triumphs"
] | null | null | null | null | 18 |
|
[
"Tarzan's New York Adventure",
"follows",
"Tarzan's Secret Treasure"
] | null | null | null | null | 27 |
|
[
"Jungle Mystery",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Jungle Mystery is a 1932 American pre-Code Universal 12-chapter movie serial directed by Ray Taylor. The serial was based on a book called "The Ivory Trail" by Talbot Mundy. A 1935 feature version was also released, edited down to 75 minutes.Plot
Various expeditionary parties head to Zanzibar to search for a legendary cache of ivory and a missing explorer named Jack Morgan. Tom Tyler played the hero, Kirk Montgomery, and Cecilia Parker played the heroine, Barbara Morgan, who is searching for her missing brother Jack. Boris Shillov and his henchman Comrade Krotsky are also searching for the ivory. The "jungle mystery" pertains to a half-man, half-ape creature named Zungu.Cast
Tom Tyler as Kirk Montgomery
Noah Beery Jr. as Fred Oakes
Cecilia Parker as Barbara Morgan
William Desmond as John Morgan (Barbara's father)
Philo McCullough as Georgie Coutlass
Carmelita Geraghty as Belle Waldron
James A. Marcus as Boris Shillov
Anders Van Haden as Comrade Krotsky (Shillov's chief henchman)
Frank Lackteen as Kazimoto
Peggy Watts as Azu (Barbara's servant)
Sam Baker as Zungu (the title character; half-man, half-ape)
Onslow Stevens as Jack Morgan (Barbara's missing brother; uncredited)
Ralph Morgan as Recap Narrator (voice; uncredited) | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Jungle Mystery",
"significant event",
"lost film"
] | null | null | null | null | 9 |
|
[
"White Material",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land is a 1952 American black-and-white adventure film directed by Lew Landers and written by Samuel Newman, and starring Johnny Weissmuller as the title character. This was the eighth entry in Columbia's "Jungle Jim" series. Angela Greene and Jean Willes also star.Plot summary
Jungle Jim battles evil ivory poachers, mutant giants, stock footage, and cheap sets with the help of a pretty anthropologist and his cute chimp Tamba.Main cast
Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim
Angela Greene as Dr. Linda Roberts
Jean Willes as Denise
Lester Matthews as Comm. Kingston
William Tannen as 'Doc' Edwards
George Eldredge as Fred Lewis
William Fawcett as Old One
John Hart as Commissioner's Secretary | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Journey Beneath the Desert",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Journey Beneath the Desert",
"based on",
"Atlantida"
] | Journey Beneath the Desert (Italian: Antinea, l'amante della città sepolta) is a 1961 adventure film based on the novel Atlantida by Pierre Benoit. | null | null | null | null | 25 |
[
"The Savage State",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Night of Truth",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Night of Truth (French: La nuit de la vérité) is a 2004 French/Burkinabe film, the first full-length film by director Fanta Régina Nacro. Set in a fictional West-African country, this film tells the story of the night of reconciliation between two ethnic groups, the Nayak and the Bonandés. After ten years of war and much bloodshed, Théo, leader of the Bonandés, invites the Nayak president to come and make peace. However, things do not go as smoothly as planned. The film is in French and Dioula. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Jungle Girl (serial)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Plot
Dr. John Meredith, ashamed at the crime spree of his evil twin brother, Bradley, travels with his daughter, Nyoka, to Africa. There his skills as a doctor displace Shamba, the resident witch doctor of the Masamba. Years later, Slick Latimer and Bradley Meredith arrive looking for a local diamond mine and team up with the disgruntled Shamba. Bradley kills his brother John and takes his place. They also bring along Jack Stanton and Curly Rogers, who promptly join Nyoka in trying to stop the villains.Cast
Frances Gifford as Nyoka Meredith. Gifford was borrowed from Paramount for the lead.
Tom Neal as Jack Stanton
Trevor Bardette as Dr John Meredith/Bradley Meredith
Gerald Mohr as Slick Latimer
Eddie Acuff as Curly Rogers
Frank Lackteen as Shamba
Tommy Cook as Kimbu
Robert Barron as Bombo
Al Kikume as Chief Lutembi
Bunny the Elephant as Veela
Emil Van Horn was the man inside the gorilla suit. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Jungle Girl (serial)",
"based on",
"Jungle Girl"
] | Jungle Girl is a 1941 15-chapter Republic serial starring Frances Gifford. It was directed by William Witney and John English based on the novel Jungle Girl (1932) by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was the 22nd of the 66 serials produced by Republic. | null | null | null | null | 7 |
[
"The King of the Kongo",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"The Adventures of Tarzan",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Plot
The serial's prologue features Edgar Rice Burroughs himself.Tarzan rescues Jane from Arab slave traders after they become marooned in Africa. They return to the cabin where his parents lived before their deaths. Jane is captured by Queen La of Opar, taken to that hidden city, and is to be made a sacrifice. Tarzan rescues her and they escape. Nikolas Rokoff and William Cecil Clayton, the usurper to Tarzan's title of Lord Greystoke, learn that Jane has a map to the city (which contains fabulous riches in exotic jewels), tattooed onto her back. They kidnap her and attempt to loot the city. Tarzan braves many perils, finally rescues Jane, defeats the villains and escapes La's amorous clutches. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"The Adventures of Tarzan",
"based on",
"The Return of Tarzan"
] | The Adventures of Tarzan (1921) is a 15 chapter movie serial which features the third and final appearance of Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. The serial was produced by Louis Weiss, written by Robert F. Hill and Lillian Valentine (partially based on the novels The Return of Tarzan and Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs), and directed by Robert F. Hill and Scott Sidney. The first chapter was released on December 1, 1921. | null | null | null | null | 17 |
[
"The Adventures of Tarzan",
"followed by",
"Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy"
] | null | null | null | null | 20 |
|
[
"The Adventures of Tarzan",
"follows",
"The Dark Heart of Time"
] | null | null | null | null | 21 |
|
[
"The Adventures of Tarzan",
"based on",
"Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar"
] | The Adventures of Tarzan (1921) is a 15 chapter movie serial which features the third and final appearance of Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. The serial was produced by Louis Weiss, written by Robert F. Hill and Lillian Valentine (partially based on the novels The Return of Tarzan and Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs), and directed by Robert F. Hill and Scott Sidney. The first chapter was released on December 1, 1921.Plot
The serial's prologue features Edgar Rice Burroughs himself.Tarzan rescues Jane from Arab slave traders after they become marooned in Africa. They return to the cabin where his parents lived before their deaths. Jane is captured by Queen La of Opar, taken to that hidden city, and is to be made a sacrifice. Tarzan rescues her and they escape. Nikolas Rokoff and William Cecil Clayton, the usurper to Tarzan's title of Lord Greystoke, learn that Jane has a map to the city (which contains fabulous riches in exotic jewels), tattooed onto her back. They kidnap her and attempt to loot the city. Tarzan braves many perils, finally rescues Jane, defeats the villains and escapes La's amorous clutches. | null | null | null | null | 25 |
[
"The Three Musketeers (1933 serial)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"The Three Musketeers (1933 serial)",
"based on",
"The Three Musketeers"
] | The Three Musketeers (aka Three Musketeers) is a 1933 American pre-Code film serial directed by Armand Schaeffer and Colbert Clark, and produced by Nat Levine for Mascot Pictures. The film serial was very loosely based on Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel The Three Musketeers, with the musketeers changed into three soldiers in the French Foreign Legion, and d'Artagnan being reconfigured as Lt. Tom Wayne (played by John Wayne), a pilot in the United States military.Wayne only received fourth billing behind Raymond Hatton, Francis X. Bushman Jr. and Jack Mulhall who play the three legionnaires. Lon Chaney Jr. had a co-starring role in the serial, mainly appearing in chapter one. | null | null | null | null | 6 |
[
"Schweitzer (film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Schweitzer, also known as The Light in the Jungle, is a 1990 American film directed by Gray Hofmeyr and starring Malcolm McDowell and Susan Strasberg. It is about Albert Schweitzer's life in Africa.Cast
Malcolm McDowell - Albert Schweitzer
Susan Strasberg - Helene Schweitzer
C. Andrew Davis - Dr. Lionel Curtis
Patrick Shai - Joseph
John Carson - Horton Herschel
Henry Cele - Oganga
Helen Jessop - Amanda Hampton
Mike Huff - Dr. Bergman
Barbara Nielsen - Rachel | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Tarzan and the Lost City",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Tarzan and the Lost City",
"based on",
"Tarzan"
] | Tarzan and the Lost City is a 1998 American adventure film directed by Carl Schenkel, and starring Casper Van Dien and Jane March with Steven Waddington. The screenplay by Bayard Johnson and J. Anderson Black is loosely based on the Tarzan stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The film received largely negative reviews and was a box office bomb.
One of the film's producers, Stanley S. Canter, had previously produced another Tarzan film for Warner Bros., Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984). | null | null | null | null | 16 |
[
"Tarzan (video game)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Tarzan and the Castaways",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Tarzan and the Castaways",
"follows",
"Tarzan and the Madman"
] | null | null | null | null | 9 |
|
[
"The Garden of Allah (1916 film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Thou Shalt Not Covet",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Echoes from a Sombre Empire",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"How Europe Underdeveloped Africa",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"The Best of Enemies (1961 film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | The Best of Enemies (I due nemici) is a 1961 Italian film directed by Guy Hamilton and Alessandro Blasetti set during the World War II East African Campaign, but filmed in Israel. It stars David Niven, Alberto Sordi and Michael Wilding. It was nominated for three Golden Globe awards in 1963.Plot
In 1941 "Abissinia" (Ethiopia) in Italian East Africa during the Second World War, British Army Major Richardson (Niven) is taken prisoner by an Italian detachment on the march in the desert when the pilot (Wilding) of his reconnaissance airplane manages to crash. He is questioned by Captain Blasi (Sordi), but gives only his name, rank and serial number. A British night attack is repulsed, but Italian Major Fornari is killed, leaving Blasi in charge. As time goes on, Blasi and Richardson come to irritate each other.
Blasi decides to let the two escape to tell their superiors how ineffectual his force actually is in the hope that the British will not think them worth bothering about. However, Richardson is ordered to take his motorized squadron and round up Blasi's unit. Blasi and his men reach a fort, where supposedly the rest of their forces are rallying, but they find only abandoned equipment. Minutes later, Richardson's armored cars show up. Blasi, under the prodding of his friend Bernasconi, reluctantly agrees to surrender, though he is angry at what he considers his betrayal at Richardson's hands. He balks at Richardson's terms and has his Italian infantrymen sneak out the back, ordering most of his African soldiers to remain behind and surrender in an hour given as a deadline.
Furious at being made a fool of, Richardson chases them into hilly terrain, against Captain Rootes' advice. After Blasi dismisses four African tribal warriors for misbehaving, they sneak behind the British and set a fire in the forest which destroys their armored cars and supplies. Both sides flee to an island in a nearby lake.
After the fire dies down, they start marching across the desert, the outnumbered Italians as prisoners of war. When they reach a native village, the headman states he supports the Allied side and asks for the Italians' weapons and the Italians themselves, but Richardson refuses to part with either. They stop in an abandoned village because a British officer is too sick to be moved, only to find themselves surrounded by many hostile natives, led by the headman Richardson dealt with before. While they wait, Richardson and Blasi become acquainted. Richardson makes the decision to arm the Italians, but then discovers they left the Italian ammunition behind. He decides to have everyone sneak away, six at a time, down a gully, but that just makes it easier for the natives to capture them. After their weapons and boots are stolen, they are allowed to leave and take their war away with them.
They reach a road. Blasi is delighted to find a road sign that indicates they are 150 miles behind Italian lines. He and his men march away. Shortly afterward, however, Richardson encounters a British convoy on its way to a victory celebration; the Italians have been defeated. Blasi and his men are recaptured. The two units meet again at a railway station. Richardson has his men present arms to show his new-found respect. | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"The Best of Enemies (1961 film)",
"main subject",
"World War II"
] | Plot
In 1941 "Abissinia" (Ethiopia) in Italian East Africa during the Second World War, British Army Major Richardson (Niven) is taken prisoner by an Italian detachment on the march in the desert when the pilot (Wilding) of his reconnaissance airplane manages to crash. He is questioned by Captain Blasi (Sordi), but gives only his name, rank and serial number. A British night attack is repulsed, but Italian Major Fornari is killed, leaving Blasi in charge. As time goes on, Blasi and Richardson come to irritate each other.
Blasi decides to let the two escape to tell their superiors how ineffectual his force actually is in the hope that the British will not think them worth bothering about. However, Richardson is ordered to take his motorized squadron and round up Blasi's unit. Blasi and his men reach a fort, where supposedly the rest of their forces are rallying, but they find only abandoned equipment. Minutes later, Richardson's armored cars show up. Blasi, under the prodding of his friend Bernasconi, reluctantly agrees to surrender, though he is angry at what he considers his betrayal at Richardson's hands. He balks at Richardson's terms and has his Italian infantrymen sneak out the back, ordering most of his African soldiers to remain behind and surrender in an hour given as a deadline.
Furious at being made a fool of, Richardson chases them into hilly terrain, against Captain Rootes' advice. After Blasi dismisses four African tribal warriors for misbehaving, they sneak behind the British and set a fire in the forest which destroys their armored cars and supplies. Both sides flee to an island in a nearby lake.
After the fire dies down, they start marching across the desert, the outnumbered Italians as prisoners of war. When they reach a native village, the headman states he supports the Allied side and asks for the Italians' weapons and the Italians themselves, but Richardson refuses to part with either. They stop in an abandoned village because a British officer is too sick to be moved, only to find themselves surrounded by many hostile natives, led by the headman Richardson dealt with before. While they wait, Richardson and Blasi become acquainted. Richardson makes the decision to arm the Italians, but then discovers they left the Italian ammunition behind. He decides to have everyone sneak away, six at a time, down a gully, but that just makes it easier for the natives to capture them. After their weapons and boots are stolen, they are allowed to leave and take their war away with them.
They reach a road. Blasi is delighted to find a road sign that indicates they are 150 miles behind Italian lines. He and his men march away. Shortly afterward, however, Richardson encounters a British convoy on its way to a victory celebration; the Italians have been defeated. Blasi and his men are recaptured. The two units meet again at a railway station. Richardson has his men present arms to show his new-found respect. | null | null | null | null | 18 |
[
"The African Queen (novel)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | The African Queen is a 1935 novel written by English author C. S. Forester. It was adapted into the 1951 film of the same name.Plot summary
The story opens in August/September 1914. Rose Sayer, a 33-year-old British woman, is the companion and housekeeper of her brother Samuel Sayer, an Anglican missionary in German East Africa (present-day Tanzania). World War I has recently begun, and the German military commander of the area has conscripted all the natives; the village is deserted, and only Rose and her brother, who is dying, remain. Samuel dies during the night and Rose is alone. That day a London Cockney named Allnutt arrives at the village. Allnutt is the mechanic and skipper of the African Queen, a steam-powered launch, owned by a Belgian mining corporation, that plies the upper reaches of the Ulanga River. Allnutt's two-man crew has deserted him because of the rumours of war and conscription. Allnutt buries Rose's brother and brings Rose to the African Queen, where they consider what they should do.
The African Queen is well-stocked with tinned food, and carries a two-hundredweight cargo of blasting gelignite. It also holds two large tanks of oxygen and hydrogen. Rose is inflamed with patriotism, and also filled with the desire to avenge insults that the Germans had piled on her brother. It occurs to her that the main German defence against a British attack by water in the area is a gunboat, Königin Luise, which guards the fictional Lake Wittelsbach into which the Ulanga feeds. She asks Allnutt if he can make the gelignite into a makeshift torpedo. Allnutt replies that that is not possible, but after some thought, he concludes that by loading the gelignite inside the emptied tanks, putting the tanks into the bow of the launch, and rigging a detonator, they could turn the African Queen itself into a sort of large torpedo. Allnutt is inclined to laugh off the idea, but he gives in to Rose's greater strength of will and the two of them set off down the Ulanga, Rose steering and Allnutt maintaining the launch's ancient, balky, wood-burning steam engine.
The descent to the lake poses three main problems: passing the German-held town of Shona; navigating some heavy rapids and cataracts; and getting through the river delta. After many days on the river, they come close to Shona, and Allnutt's nerve fails. He refuses to take the launch under fire, anchors in a backwater, and gets drunk on gin. Unable to work the launch single-handedly, Rose sets out to make Allnutt's life miserable until he agrees to her plan. While he is asleep she pours all his gin overboard, then refuses to speak to him. The weak-willed Allnutt eventually gives in, and the African Queen gets underway again. They come in sight of Shona at midday. The German commander assumes that the launch is coming in to surrender (because he believes no boat could pass the rapids downriver from the town, so Shona is the only possible destination). He does not realise his mistake until it is too late, and though he and his men open fire, the launch sustains only minor damage as it passes the town.
Once it is below the town, the African Queen spends several days shooting the rapids; Allnutt is exhilarated, and he and Rose are reconciled and become lovers. Rose, embarrassed, admits that she does not know Allnutt's first name; he tells her it is Charlie. On the third day the launch strikes on rocks while navigating some rapids, goes off course and does not respond well to the tiller, so they are forced to anchor on the lee side of a rock outcropping. Allnutt dives into the water to inspect the underside of the launch and finds that the driveshaft is bent and the propeller has lost one of its blades. Over the next weeks they slowly repair the damage without being able to beach the launch; Allnutt has to dive repeatedly to remove the shaft and propeller. On shore they gather wood and construct a makeshift bellows to heat the shaft so Allnutt can straighten it. Then Allnutt makes a new propeller blade out of scrap iron and bolts it to the stump of the old blade. After numerous dives to fix the shaft and propeller, they continue on their way and eventually pass the rapids, coming out of the Ulanga River into the larger Bora River, which feeds into the lake. By this point, Rose has become an expert at using the tiller and reading the complex changes of the river.
Passing the river delta is long and arduous. Tormented by myriads of biting insects, sickened by malaria, and wracked by the terrible heat and powerful thunderstorms, they drag the launch through miles of reeds and water-grass with their boat-hooks, occasionally diving to cut fallen logs out of their way. Though the launch is shallow (with a draft of only thirty inches), it constantly runs aground on the thick mud. Finally, after weeks of exhausting labour, they emerge into the lake.
They hide the launch in a stand of reeds and begin constructing the torpedo. Allnutt releases the gas from his two tanks and unscrews the valves, leaving a hole big enough for him to fill the tanks with gelignite, packed in mud. He cuts two holes in the front of the launch, right at the waterline, and fixes the two tanks there; he then constructs detonators from nails and revolver cartridges, so the gelignite will detonate on impact. All that is left is to pilot the launch right into the side of the Königin Luise, and the resulting explosion will destroy both vessels. They have been keeping track of the gunboat's habits, and choose a night when it will be anchored close to them. They argue about which of them should pilot the launch and which should stay behind, but in the end they agree that they will both go. They fire up the engine and set out on the attack, but halfway to their target a sudden storm sweeps up out of nowhere and overwhelms them; the African Queen sinks, and Rose and Allnutt have to swim for safety.
The two lovers are separated in the storm, but both are captured by the Germans the next day. They are brought before the captain of the Königin Luise to be tried as spies. Both refuse to say how they came to the lake, but the captain sees "African Queen" written on Rose's life-saver and deduces that they must be the mechanic and the missionary's sister from the mysteriously missing launch. He decides it would be uncivilised to execute them, so he flies a flag of truce and delivers them to the British naval commander, who dismissively sends them to separate tents under guard while he takes his newly arrived reinforcements out to sink the Königin Luise. Having succeeded in this, he sends Rose and Allnutt to the coast to speak to the British Consul, where he advises Allnutt to enlist in the British Army. Rose and Allnutt agree that when they reach the coast they will ask the Consul to marry them. The story ends with the narrator's comment that "Whether or not they lived happily ever after is not easily decided."
The MV Liemba, named SMS Graf von Goetzen during World War I, was the inspiration for the German gunboat. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"The African Queen (novel)",
"main subject",
"World War I"
] | null | null | null | null | 2 |
|
[
"The Perfect Life",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Tarzan's Quest",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Tarzan's Quest",
"follows",
"Tarzan and the Leopard Men"
] | null | null | null | null | 10 |
|
[
"Tuareg – The Desert Warrior",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Tuareg – The Desert Warrior",
"narrative location",
"Sahara"
] | null | null | null | null | 3 |
|
[
"Tuareg – The Desert Warrior",
"based on",
"Tuareg"
] | Tuareg – Il guerriero del deserto (internationally released as Tuareg – The Desert Warrior and Desert Warrior) is a 1984 Spanish-Italian adventure-action film directed by Enzo G. Castellari.The film is based on a novel with the same name written by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa. It represents the first film released by home video distribution company Mirisch. | null | null | null | null | 27 |
[
"Big Run (video game)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Black Gold (2006 film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Black Gold is a 2006 documentary film that follows the efforts of an Ethiopian coffee union manager as he travels the world to obtain a better price for his workers' coffee beans. The film was directed and produced by Marc James Francis and Nick Francis from Speakit Films, and co-produced by Christopher Hird. It premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.Synopsis
The film focuses on the coffee growers of the Oromia Region of southern and western Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. It follows Tadesse Meskela, the General Manager of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, as he visits coffee-growing regions in Sidamo and Oromia (including the Kilenso Mokonisa Cooperative in the Bule Hora woreda in the Borena Zone of the Oromia Region), as well as a coffee processing center, a coffee auction house, and his union's headquarters in Addis Ababa. He also travels to England and the United States in an effort to promote Ethiopian coffee by eliminating the numerous middlemen. There is also a scene where coffee farmers pray to God for a higher price, which was filmed at the Negele Gorbitu Cooperative, located near Irgachefe in the Abaya woreda of the Borena Zone. The Ethiopian coffee farmers speak about their lives, with one explaining that he is cutting down his coffee plants and planting khat (a plant containing cathinone, an amphetamine-like stimulant) instead, due to the low price he is getting for coffee because of the explosion in the number of coffee farmers across the globe, and the comparatively higher price he can get for khat.
The film also includes footage of the New York Board of Trade, a commodity-trading floor in New York City, where the "C" international benchmark price of coffee is set each business day based on supply and demand, and explores the effects that these international prices (which by 2006 were at an all-time low) have on Ethiopian coffee growers. Other footage was shot at the first Starbucks and the World Barista Championship at the 2005 Specialty Coffee Association of America conference in Seattle; and at a café and the Illy coffee company in Trieste, Italy. These scenes stand in stark contrast to the footage of the impoverished conditions faced by the Ethiopian coffee farmers and their families. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Ceddo",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Ceddo (pronounced [ˈtʃɛd.do]), also known as The Outsiders, is a 1977 Senegalese drama film directed by Ousmane Sembène. It was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.Plot
In Senegal, sometime after the establishment of a European presence in the area but before the imposition of direct French colonial administration, the Ceddo (the outsiders, or non-Muslims) try to preserve their traditional culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When local king Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo abduct his daughter, Dior Yacine, to protest their forced conversion to Islam. Two members of the tribe try and fail to recapture the princess. Fearing their position is under threat, the local Imam inspires the Muslims to kill the king and the white Christian slave-traders. They convert the entire village to Islam by force, and manage to recapture the princess. When returning to the village, Dior Yacine rallies the ceddo against the Muslims, and kills the Imam who has taken her father's throne. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Jane and the Lost City",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Synopsis
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sends Jane (Hughes) and the Colonel (Bailey) on a mission to prevent the diamonds of the fabled Lost City from falling into enemy hands. Journeying to Africa where they are joined by Jungle Jack Buck (Jones), their quest is dogged by Nazi agents Lola Pagola and Heinrich (Adams and Carrott).
Jane and the Lost City emulates the mild eroticism of its source material, having the heroine lose items of her clothing several times during the narrative. Despite this, the film was released as PG (Parental Guidance) in the USA.Cast
Sam J. Jones – ‘Jungle’ Jack Buck
Maud Adams – Lola Pagola
Jasper Carrott – Heinrich / Herman / Hans
Kirsten Hughes – Jane
Graham Stark – Tombs
Robin Bailey – The Colonel
Ian Roberts – Carl
Elsa O'Toole – The Leopard Queen
John Rapley – Dr. Schell
Charles Comyn – Paddy
Ian Steadman – Capt. Fawcett
Graham Armitage – Gen. Smythe-Paget
Richard Huggett – Winston Churchill
Andrew Buckland – Grenville
Albert Raphael – Rashleigh
James White – Scott
Victor Gallucci – Muller
Patrick Hugnin – German Pilot
John Alton – Freddy
Magnum – Fritz the dog
Dharmarajen Sabapathee - Indian chief | null | null | null | null | 1 |
[
"Jane and the Lost City",
"main subject",
"World War II"
] | Jane and the Lost City is a 1987 UK film, based on the British newspaper strip Jane by Norman Pett. An adventure comedy set during World War II, the film was directed by Terry Marcel, and stars Kirsten Hughes in the title role, Sam Jones, Maud Adams, Jasper Carrott and Robin Bailey. | null | null | null | null | 2 |
[
"Jungle Jitters",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Jungle Queen (serial)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Plot
In 1939, Nazi Germany sends a team of agents to incite revolt and seize British Middle Africa as a first step in conquering Africa. Attempting to place their own sympathiser in charge of the local tribe, they face resistance from Pamela Courtney searching for her Uncle Allen Courtney, a pair of American volunteers and the mysterious Jungle Queen Lothel, who appears out of nowhere in her nightgown to give advice and instructions to the tribe. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Jungle Queen (serial)",
"main subject",
"World War II"
] | null | null | null | null | 2 |
|
[
"Konga Yo",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Lion (video game)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Gameplay
The gameplay is divided into two parts. The first is a sandbox simulation mode, where the player has no predetermined goal. The second is a scenario mode, where the player has to complete specific actions; this is comparable to quests given in RPGs.
As in the original, the player takes on the role of a lion chosen from a pool of 20 different animals, with varying attributes, in existing prides or handpicked groups made by the player. The player can control a single animal or all members of a pride.
Unlike Wolf, which takes place in three different locales, Lion is played only on the savannas and plains of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania (though in four different seasons).
Also includes a "Lion Safari", an interactive tour of the leonine life on the Serengeti.Reception
A Next Generation critic commented, "Sanctuary Woods hit a home run with its predator simulation Wolf. Its next title in the series, Lion, continues the trend by demonstrating in a very entertaining way what life can be like for large, aggressive creatures living in today's wilds." While remarking that the controls take considerable time to get used to, he found the game to ultimately be both educational and entertaining, and scored it four out of five stars. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"My Animal Centre in Africa",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Queen Kong",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Safari (1940 film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Safari is a 1940 American adventure film directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll and Tullio Carminati.The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Dreier and Ernst Fegté.Plot
Millionaire Baron de Courland arrives in West Africa in order to hunt for big game. He is accompanied by his girlfriend, Linda Stewart.
De Courland hires Jim Logan to be his guide. During the safari, Linda falls for Jim, causing De Courland to be jealous. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Sammy Going South",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Sammy Going South (retitled A Boy Ten Feet Tall for its later US release) is a 1963 British adventure film directed by Alexander Mackendrick, photographed by Erwin Hillier and starring Edward G. Robinson, Fergus McClelland and Constance Cummings.Sammy Going South was based on a 1961 novel by W. H. Canaway and adapted for the screen by Denis Cannan. It was produced by Michael Balcon Productions and Bryanston Films. The film had a difficult production period; Robinson suffered a heart attack and some cast members were bitten by snakes. It was first broadcast on British television on BBC2 on Christmas Day 1970 and on American television by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1971.Plot
Ten-year-old English boy Sammy Hartland lives in Port Said, Egypt, with his parents. When they are killed in a bombing during the Suez Crisis, the boy flees the city in the ensuing panic. He sets out to reach his only living relative, an aunt who lives 5,000 miles to the south in Durban, South Africa - at the other end of the continent and in a different hemisphere. Along his journey Sammy encounters a colourful array of characters. His first "guide" is an Arab peddler who dies in a freak accident.
Sammy is then rescued by wealthy tourist Gloria van Imhoff. When she wants to return him to Port Said, Sammy runs off and encounters a gruff old hunter/diamond smuggler, Cocky Wainwright, whose life is subsequently saved by the boy. When the police search for Sammy, they arrest the old man, who has been a fugitive for years. After Sammy is finally united with his Aunt Jane, he learns that the old smuggler left him his entire fortune.Reception
Released theatrically in the United States as the headliner of a double bill with Crack in the World, Sammy Going South was reviewed by Howard Thompson for The New York Times. He commented: "... "Boy" is above average, in detailing the 2,000-mile trek of a war orphan during the Suez crisis in 1956, from Port Said to Durban, South Africa. The picture aims to convey the emotional growth of the battered youngster, played by 10-year-old Fergus McClelland, in his encounters with toughening, adult relationships. Most fortunately indeed, at about midpoint, that wonderful old actor Edward G. Robinson saunters into view as a grizzled, warm-hearted diamond smuggler, and gives the picture its real substance." Nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for best British cinematography in 1964, Sammy Going South was also entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival. The film was a box office disappointment. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Super Fly T.N.T.",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Super Fly T.N.T. is a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed and starring Ron O'Neal. O'Neal reprises his role of Youngblood Priest from the 1972 film Super Fly. The film was both a critical and commercial failure according to some critics.
The film was released on VHS in 1993, but it has not been released on DVD or Blu-ray. It was shot in Rome, Italy and other locations such as Senegal. A sequel, The Return of Superfly, was released in 1990, with Nathan Purdee as Priest. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Super Fly T.N.T.",
"performer",
"Osibisa"
] | Soundtrack
The soundtrack was done by English/African/Caribbean band Osibisa and charted at #159 on the Billboard charts and #41 on R&B albums. It has been re-issued on CD by Red Steel Music with bonus tracks in 1995.Track listing
All songs arranged, performed and composed by Osibisa. | null | null | null | null | 8 |
[
"Super Fly T.N.T.",
"followed by",
"Happy Children"
] | null | null | null | null | 14 |
|
[
"Adventures of Captain Africa Mighty Jungle Avenger!",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"The Call of the Savage",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | The Call of the Savage (1935) is a Universal serial based on the story Jan of the Jungle by Otis Adelbert Kline. It was directed by Lew Landers and released by Universal Pictures. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"The River of Stars (film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"Tim Tyler's Luck (serial)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Premise
Tim Tyler stows away on a ship bound for Africa to find his father, Professor James Tyler. He meets, and is joined by, Lora Lacey, who is chasing the criminal "Spider" Webb, the man responsible for framing her brother.Cast
Frankie Thomas as Tim Tyler
Frances Robinson as Lora Lacey, posing as Lora Graham
Norman Willis as "Spider" Webb
Jack Mulhall as Sargeant Gates
Al Shean as Professor James Tyler, Tim's father
Anthony Warde as Garry Drake
Earl Douglas as Jules Lazarre
William 'Billy' Benedict as Spud
Frank Mayo as Jim Conway
Alan Gregg as Brent, one of Spider's henchman
Stanley Blystone as Captain Clark
Everett Brown as Mogu, Spider's native henchman
Skippy as Ju Ju, the Chimp | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Rhino!",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"The Good Lie",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"The Good Lie",
"different from",
"The Good Lie"
] | null | null | null | null | 46 |
|
[
"Old Bones of the River",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"So This Is Africa",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | So This Is Africa is a 1933 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Raquel Torres, and Esther Muir. It was Wheeler and Woolsey's only film for Columbia Pictures.Plot
Film studio "Ultimate Pictures" plans on producing an animal picture in Africa. The studio gets the help of animal specialist Mrs. Johnson Martini. There's just one problem: she's afraid of animals. Martini and the studio soon learn of Wilbur and Alexander, a couple of down on their luck vaudevillians with a trained lion act. The duo agree to join Martini on an expedition to Africa. While there, the trio finds themselves captured by a tribe of violent Amazons. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"King Solomon's Treasure",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"King Solomon's Treasure",
"based on",
"Allan Quatermain"
] | King Solomon's Treasure is a 1979 British-Canadian low-budget film based on the novels King Solomon's Mines (1885) and Allan Quatermain (1887) by H. Rider Haggard. It stars John Colicos as Allan Quatermain, as well as David McCallum, Britt Ekland, and Patrick Macnee who replaced Terry-Thomas. | null | null | null | null | 15 |
[
"Blended (film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 3 |
|
[
"Young Ones (film)",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Jagga Jasoos",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Production
Filming took place in Cape Town, South Africa. Reports from Cape Town were that the real-world romance of Kapoor and Kaif was falling apart and occasional arguments between the two caused some delays and resulted in scenes not having the impact intended by Basu. By 20 March 2014, Basu had completed 20 days of filming with his leads and, being unhappy with initial efforts by Kapoor, intended to use the additional schedule time to re-shoot some scenes. Kapoor was simultaneously shooting for Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet and Imtiaz Ali's Tamasha. Basu explained, "We've to shoot Jagga Jasoos during the gaps in the shooting of Bombay Velvet. We completed one schedule. Now we'll go into a lengthy schedule from August. By the end of the year the shooting would be complete."The film was originally going to release on 27 November 2015, but the film's release date was pushed to April 2017. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
[
"Jagga Jasoos",
"performer",
"Pritam Chakraborty"
] | null | null | null | null | 14 |
|
[
"The End of Eden",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"The End of Eden",
"main subject",
"environmental issue"
] | The End of Eden is a 1986 environmental documentary in which the South African filmmaker Rick Lomba (1950–1994) showed the rapid degradation of Africa's ecosystems. The introduction of cattle ranching and the beef industry in the southern African landscape is featured prominently within the film as a primary source of devastation to the land.The film is severely critical of the policies of the World Bank and other international banks in advocating and funding African industrial agricultural and cattle breeding projects in an attempt to boost African economies. It portrays graphically the otherwise forbidden pesticides used to try to eradicate the tsetse fly, which he describes as the last bastion of defence the wilderness has against the encroachment of civilisation, and the erosion and overgrazing that results. Some of it is filmed from a microlight aircraft which he used to approach these areas.
Numerous interviews with persons engaged in conservation, big-game hunting, hunger relief and agriculture are presented as well as some economically and environmentally sustainable alternatives such as wildlife farming.
The documentary was written and directed by Rick Lomba, produced by Rick Lomba Productions and narrated by American actor Jeff Folger.
It was funded by the First National Bank and appeared on television for about three years, after which it inexplicably disappeared from circulation. | null | null | null | null | 3 |
[
"The Adventurer of Chad",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 0 |
|
[
"The Black Decameron",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | null | null | null | null | 1 |
|
[
"Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013",
"narrative location",
"Africa"
] | Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 is a first-person shooter light gun hunting video game developed by Cauldron and published by Activision on October 23, 2012 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and Wii. A Wii U port was released later on December 4, 2012. The game's story features Jacob Marshall as he tries to hunt in Africa, while remembering a past hunting trip in Alaska with his father and brother.Plot
The game opens with young brothers Jacob and Luke Marshall on a hunting trip in Alaska with their father, a park ranger. The three of them are attacked by an unusually aggressive scar-faced grizzly bear. Luke saves Jacob by pulling him up a cliff instead of taking a shot at the bear. Instead, the bear kills their father, who jumps in its path to protect them and manages to kill it with his final shot.
10 years later, Jacob and Luke have become estranged from each other, but have agreed to reunite for a hunting safari in Uganda on their father's birthday. Jacob has become a conservationist while Luke has gained a reputation as a hunter of man-eaters. Before they can begin their safari, Luke receives word that a local man was dragged away from his children by a black lion, a creature previously thought to be mythical. Being reminded of the death of his own father, Luke is enraged and takes off alone in pursuit of the man-eater; Jacob follows to assist him, against Luke's wishes.
The game periodically cuts between Jacob's pursuit of Luke through the African jungle and flashbacks to the earlier hunting trip in Alaska with Jacob, Luke, and their father, where Jacob saved Luke's life from a pack of wolves and the three of them first encountered the scar-faced grizzly bear that would later kill their father.
Jacob ultimately enters an ancient ruined city, where he encounters the black lion and its pride. Luke is dragged off by the black lion, but Jacob succeeds in defeating the beast and saving his brother. Mirroring their encounter with the grizzly 10 years earlier, Jacob chooses to pull his brother up a cliff instead of taking the final shot on the black lion; however, he still manages to kill the lion after saving his brother. | null | null | null | null | 0 |
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