What a good surprise, this adventure flick, which looks like a western, and produced by the UK film industry, in a period, before the mid sixties, when the British dared to provide many adventure films, most of the time as good as the US ones. The same concerning the war films. Because after the late sixties, they totally abandonned the genre to focus only on social and - from time to time - crime features. Back to this one, Jack Hawkins is perfect in this role, as also is Dennis Price. Splendid settings and solid script enhance the efficiency of this David Mc Donald's film. Notice that this director also made another adventure film taking also place in South Africa : DIAMOND CITY, also spaking of diamonds. I don't remember if those two features are alike or not, I will review this latest in a few weeks. This movie maybe lacks of action scenes but prefers focusing on characters. Good climax. Ald David Mc Donald's most known film will remain CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.