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Richard Harris (David Swansey) doesn't appear until the eighteen minute mark.
Mervyn Johns was going to in this, but was replaced before filming.
This movie was released four years after its source novel was published.
The movie was predominantly set in the Republic of Rhodesia, but was not filmed there, instead shooting in South Africa.
This movie was set and filmed during the Rhodesian Bush War (The Second Chimurenga, The Zimbabwe War of Liberation, The Rhodesian War). This war went from July 1964 to December 1979. This movie was in release in many territories during the last six months of the war, but was also in first release in many territories in 1980, when the war was over.