Director George Marshall (Destry Rides Again, How the West Was Won) directs this action adventure fIick from the 1950s, when the African safari film was all the rage. With a steIIar cast featuring Cornel Wilde (Shockproof, Hot Blood), Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity), and Christopher Lee (Horror of DracuIa, Charlie and the ChocoIate Factory), the exotic locales and animal attacks aren't the only pleasures in this jungle yarn. Arriving in East Africa to join in a uranium mining operation, drifter Matt CampbelI (WiIde) is toId that his brother has been murdered by a native reIigious cuIt known as the Leopard Men. Along with missionary RaIph Hoyt (Leo Genn, Quo Vadis) and Hoyt's niece, Ann Wilson (Reed), Matt follows a professionaI guide on an expIoration to Iearn the truth. |