

99 minutes
1/7/1955
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.

Dirk Bogarde
as Alan Howard

Donald Sinden
as Inspector Drummond

Virginia McKenna
as Mary Crawford

Basil Sydney
as Mr Crawford

Marie Ney
as Mrs Crawford

Joseph Tomelty
as Doctor Hughes

Earl Cameron
as Karanja

Orlando Martins
as Headman
Frank Singuineau
as Waweru
Huntley Campbell
as Joshua
Slim Harris
as Chege
Glyn Lawson
as Mundati
Harry Quashie
as Thakla
John Chandos
as Settler

Desmond Roberts
as Colonel Bridgeman

Errol John
as African Inspector
Ben Johnson
as Kimani