Description
Original 1956 US window card, used, stamped, folded (36 x 56 cm)
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. 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
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 date: 1956
Running time: 85 minutes
Country: United Kingdom