Death Drums Along the River ( 1963 ) ( Sanders )

Death Drums Along the River ( 1963 ) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sanders
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
80 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1963 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Lawrence Huntington

Written By:
Edgar Wallace

Actors:
Richard Todd ..... Inspector Harry Sanders
Marianne Koch ..... Dr. Inge Jung (as Marianne Cook)
Albert Lieven ..... Dr. Weiss
Walter Rilla ..... Dr. Schneider
Jeremy Lloyd ..... Hamilton
Robert Arden ..... Hunter
Vivi Bach ..... Marlene
Bill Brewer ..... Pearson
Simon Sabela ..... Bosambo

Synopsis:

Based on an Edgar Wallace s novel Death Drums along the River was made on location in Africa and contains some outstanding filming of both scenery and wildlife. While investigating the murder of a fellow police officer in the British West African colony of Gambia, ex-patriot Inspector Harry Sanders (Richard Todd) discovers links to a sinister diamond smuggling operation working further up the River Gambia.
The evidence points to a clinic run by Dr Schneider (Walter Rilla) and his assistant director, Dr Weiss (Albert Lieven). At first, Inspector Sanders suspects that a local businessman Jack Pearson is behind the crimes. But when Pearson together with American journalist Jim Hunter are murdered, Sanders realises he was mistaken and begins to suspect that the clinic may be the centre of a diamond smuggling ring. Can the Inspector solve both the murder and the centre of the smuggling activity before the River resonates once more to the funeral beat of the Death Drums?

In an unnamed African nation, two policemen patrolling a wharf sight a bag of nuts dropped by stevedores. As the bag breaks the workers discover a pouch that was in the bag of nuts that is quickly grabbed by a man who escapes after killing one of the policemen. Police Commissioner Sanders (Todd) questions Pearson (Bill Brewer), a suspected criminal, but finds no information. At the same time, a Dr. Jung (Koch) arrives at the airport and is met by Todd's assistant Inspector Hamilton (Jeremy Lloyd). Dr. Jung is going to a clinic up country near the Senegalese Border run by Dr. Weiss (Albert Lieven), Dr. Schneider (Walter Rilla) and Nurse Marlene (Vivi Bach). Also on the plane with Dr. Jung is an American journalist (Robert Arden) who wishes to visit the clinic to do a story. Commissioner Sanders begins to suspect the clinic as a location for smuggled diamonds from across the border.

Diamond smuggling in an African colony is foiled by the British commissioner.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 15 March, 2015.