Odongo

Odongo
Original film poster
Directed by	John Gilling
Produced by	Irving Allen Albert R. Broccoli
Screenplay by	John Gilling Islin Auster (story)
Starring	Rhonda Fleming Juma Macdonald Carey Earl Cameron
Music by	George Melachrino
Cinematography	Ted Moore
Production company	Warwick Films
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	1956
Running time	85 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Odongo or Odongo Adventure on the African Frontier is a 1956 British Warwick Films CinemaScope African adventure drama film directed by John Gilling and starring Rhonda Fleming, Macdonald Carey and Juma.^[1] The screenplay concerns a white hunter who falls in love with a vet in Kenya.

Plot

Pamela, a veterinarian from Pittsburgh, comes to Kenya to work on big-game hunter Steve Stratton's farm. He was expecting a man and doesn't want her there.

The exotic animals Steve hunts and collects are precious to young native Odongo, who is employed by him. When another worker, Walla, is fired, he attacks Odongo, whose pet chimp comes to his rescue. Steve threatens to send the chimp to a zoo.

Odongo misses on purpose during a safari when Steve orders him to shoot an impala. Steve also saves Pam from a charging rhino and hopes she will leave. But his attitude softens after Pam delivers a native's baby and is given a rare animal as a reward.

The angry Walla frees all of the animals from their pens and starts a fire. Odongo is accused by Steve, then is taken hostage by Walla and pushed from a cliff into crocodile-filled waters. Steve jumps in to save him, while Walla fatally encounters one of Odongo's animals while trying to escape. Pamela agrees to stay.

Cast

Rhonda Fleming - Pamela Muir
Macdonald Carey - Steve Stratton
Juma - Odongo
Eleanor Summerfield - Celia Watford
Francis de Wolff - George Watford
Leonard Sachs - Game Warden
Earl Cameron - Hassan
Dan Jackson - Walla
Michael Caridia - Lester Watford
Errol John - Mr Bawa
Paul Hardtmuth - Mohammed
Bartholomew Sketch - Leni
Lionel Ngakane - Leni's Brother

References

↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/44722

External links

Odongo at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by John Gilling

Escape from Broadmoor (1948)
A Matter of Murder (1949)
No Trace (1950)
The Quiet Woman (1951)
The Frightened Man (1952)
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire (1952)
The Voice of Merrill (1952)
Deadly Nightshade (1953)
Recoil (1953)
Escape by Night (1953)
Three Steps to the Gallows (1953)
Destination Milan (1954) (Compilation of three episodes of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents television series)
Double Exposure (1954)
The Embezzler (1954)
The Gilded Cage (1955)
Tiger by the Tail (1955)
Odongo (1956)
The Gamma People (1956)
Interpol (1957)
High Flight (1957)
The Man Inside (1958)
Idol on Parade (1959)
The Bandit of Zhobe (1959)
The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
The Challenge (1960)
Fury at Smugglers' Bay (1961)
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
Panic (1963)
The Scarlet Blade (1964 )
The Brigand of Kandahar (1965)
The Night Caller (1965)
Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
The Reptile (1966)
The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
La cruz del diablo (1975)

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