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Action Performance | 1968 | Rod
Trade paper Variety erroneously reported in its review that this Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie was shot in Africa. The exteriors were lensed in Jamaica in the Caribbean as it could not be shot in Africa due to political unrest. Ironically, around the same, another picture from MGM, Graham Greene's The Comedians (1967), was set in the Caribbean, but filmed in Benin, West Africa.
The 37-year-old Rod Taylor began to focus on action movies with this film, turning down all offers for more dramatic work.
This movie re-unites Rod Taylor with Yvette Mimieux eight years after they co-starred in The Time Machine (1960).
The film was a particular influence on Quentin Tarantino who used several tracks from the score for his film Inglourious Basterds (2009). Rod Taylor appears in that movie as Winston Churchill.
The movie was made and released about three years after its source novel "Dark of the Sun" by Wilbur Smith had been first published in 1965. The book was Smith's second novel with this film Dark of the Sun (1968) being the first ever screen adaptation of a Wilbur Smith story.
"Curry: The gun's Chinese Ruffo, paid for by Russian rubles. The steel probably came from a West German factory built by French francs. Then it was flown out here on a South African airline probably subsidized by The United States. I don't think he got very far."
"Doctor Wreid: You expect me to go on a mission for one lousy bottle of good scotch? Curry: No, no. No, twelve bottles. Doctor Wreid: Oh! Oh. My God, Curry, you've got a nerve. Coming to me here with all that dreadful acting, trying to bribe me with a case of scotch. Curry: A case of scotch and three days at $100 a day."
14 May 2021
