Description
Original 1958 US 1 sheet, used, folded (69 x 104 cm)
Diamond Safari is a 1958 American crime film directed by Gerald Mayer and starring Kevin McCarthy, Betty McDowall and André Morell. Its plot involves an American who battles diamond smugglers in Africa.
Filmed in South Africa in 1955, the film features the first (and only) two 30-minute episodes of a television series called African Drumbeat.
Cast
Kevin McCarthy – Harry Jordan
Robert Bice – Reubens
Tommy Buson – Medicine Man
John Clifford – Doc
Joanna Douglas – Petey
Frances Driver – Glass Blower’s Wife
Joel Herholdt – Sergeant van der Cliffe
Hanna Landy – Wanda
Betty McDowall – Louise Saunders
Michael McNeile – Phillips
Harry Mekela – Police Boy
André Morell – Williamson
Patrick Simpson – Carlton
Geoffrey Tsobe – Stephen Timbu
Gert Van den Bergh – Compound Manager
Production
African Drumbeat was a TV series produced by Gerard Mayer for Edward Dukoff, personal manager of Danny Kaye. It was done in partnership with the Schlesinger Organization of South Africa and Great Britain.
Larry Marcus wrote three scripts for the series which focused on Harry Jordan, an American soldier of fortune in South Africa. Kevin McCarthy was cast in this role. Filming began in South Africa in 1 July 1955.
There was location filming in Krueger National Park. Filming was completed by October 1955.
No TV series resulted. The episodes were cut together and released as a feature film.
