ID

FBW001330      Fiction

Country / Year

USA, 1941

Original Title

Sundown

Directed by

Henry Hathaway

Produced by

United Artists Corp., Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Walter Wanger; Script: Barre Lyndon, Charles G. Booth; Based on: Barre Lyndon; Camera: Charles B. Lang; Editing: Dorothy Spencer; Production design: Alexander Golitzen; Special Effects: Ray O. Binger; Costumes: Walter Plunkett; Music: Miklós Rózsa

Cast

Gene Tierney (Zia); Bruce Cabot (Capt. Bill Crawford); George Sanders (Maj. Coombes); Cedric Hardwicke (Bishop Coombes); Harry Carey (Dewey); Joseph Calleia (Pallini); Reginald Gardiner (Lt. Turner); Carl Esmond (Kuypens); Marc Lawrence (Hammud); Jeni Le Gon (Miriami); Emmett Smith (Kipsang); Dorothy Dandridge (Kipsang's Bride); Gilbert Emery (Ashburton); Horace Walker (Lecherous Old Man); Eddie Das (Pindi); Prince Modupe (Miriami's Sweetheart); Hassan Said (Arab Reader); Wesley Gale (Native Boy); Jester Hairston (Native Boy); Nero Curtis (Corporal of Askaris); Al Duval (Magabul); Kenny Washington (Sgt. Kumakwa); Woody Strode (Tribal Policeman); Walter Knox (Father); William Broadus (Village Headman); Ivan Browning (Signal Man); William Dunn (Kipsang's Victim); Tetsu Komai (Kuypens' Shenzi Aide); Frederick Clark (Ibraham); Darby Jones (Camel Man); Blue Washington (Askari Veteran); Laurence La Mar (Shenzi Informer); Frank Clark (Pilot); George Lincoln (Pilot)

Length

90'

Format

35mm/sw/1:1,37

Abstract

In Africa at the onset of WWII, the Germans try to get the local tribes to rebel against the British colonials. Capt. Bill Crawford is a local commissioner who, with the help of military man Maj. Coombes, discovers the German plot to run guns to the natives; Zia is the adopted daughter of an Arab who now runs some trading caravans and trading posts. Zia agrees to help the British and joins Kuypens, the local undercover Nazi chief, in order to find out more about his plans.

Subject Terms

Anti-Nazi films (US)

Bibliography

- Nash, Ray R. / Ross, Stanley R. / Conelly, Robert B. (Ed.): Motion Picture Guide. Chicago, IL: Cinebooks, 1987
- Bourghet, Jean Loup: "Intellectuell engagé ou dilettante? Walter Wanger, un producteur 'independant' ŕ Hollywood", in: Positif (Paris), Nr. 403, Mai, 01.05.2001