Description
Original 1959 US lobby card, qty:8, used (36 x 28 cm)
Killers of Kilimanjaro is a 1959 British CinemaScope adventure film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey and Donald Pleasence for Warwick Films.
The movie was originally known as Adamson of Africa.
Main cast
Robert Taylor as Robert Adamson
Anthony Newley as Hooky Hook
Anne Aubrey as Jane Carlton
Donald Pleasence as Captain
Grégoire Aslan as Ben Ahmed
Allan Cuthbertson as Sexton
Martin Benson as Ali
Orlando Martins as Chief
John Dimech as Pasha
Martin Boddey as Gunther
Production
Warwick Films had made three films in Africa, Safari, Zarak and Odongo. The movie was announced in 1956 and inspired by the story of the Tsavo maneaters recounted in the 1955 book African Bush Adventures by J.A. Hunter and Daniel P. Mannix.
The screenplay was originally by Peter Viertel, who had worked on The African Queen, and written a novel of the experiences called White Hunter, Black Heart. Alan Ladd, who had made three films for Warwick, was the announced as male lead – it was meant to be part of a six-picture deal between Ladd and Warwick that also included The Man Inside and It’s Always Four O’Clock. In the final event Ladd made no further films for Warwick – the lead role went to Robert Taylor.
Filming took place on location in Moshi Tanganyika, the same location used for Mogambo and Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure.
Release
The film’s title was changed to Killers of Kilimanjaro. This upset Chief Thomas Marealle of the Chagga tribe, on whose lands the film was shot, and he made an official complaint. Mount Kilimanjaro lies about 125 kilometres (78 mi) west of Tsavo in Tanzania.
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Produced by John R Sloane executive, Irving Allen, Albert R. Broccoli
Screenplay by John Gilling
Based on story by Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum from book African Bush Adventures by J Hunter
Starring Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley
Music by William Alwyn
Cinematography Ted Moore
Edited by Geoffrey Foot
Production company: Warwick Films
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date: 1959
Running time: 91 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
