The read
It runs a compact 1h 8m.
Synopsis
Bob Adams, ace newsreel cameraman, is told by his boss, "Get the picture---we can't screen alibis." He heads for Samari, a desert hot-bed of tribal unrest in Africa, to do just that, which includes getting footage of El Kadar, bandit and rebel leader. He gets his pictures but only after a romance with the Colonel's daughter Pamela, saving his wimpy, hacked-off brother Don from being a dupe of the gun-runners, and run-ins with spies and throat-cutting tribesman. For a finale, he saves the British Army.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
9 audience votes
Key crew
- Arthur LubinDirector
- George WaggnerScreenplay
Cast
- John WayneBob Adams
- Gwen GazePamela Armitage
- Don BarclayElmer Davis
- Charles BrokawEl Kadar / Muffadhi
- James BushDon Adams
- Pat SomersetCaptain Archie Culvert
- Arthur AylesworthDave Logan
- Sam HarrisColonel Hugh Armitage
- Olaf HyttenSir Herbert
- Frank LackteenMustapha
- Franklin ParkerParker
- Keith HitchcockSergeant Major