Golden Ivory

Golden Ivory
US Film poster by Albert Kallis
Directed by George Breakston
Produced by Robert J. Gurney Jr.
James H. Nicholson
Written by Paul W. Fairman (original story)
Robert J. Gurney Jr.
Al Martin
Starring Robert Urquhart
John Bentley
Susan Stephen
Music by Phillip Green
Cinematography John Lawrence
Distributed by Associated British-Pathé (UK)
American International Pictures (US)
Release date
 1954 (UK)
1957 (US)
Running time
 89 minutes/80 minutes (US)
Country UK
Language English

Golden Ivory is a 1954 British adventure film shot in Kenya. It was directed by George P. Breakston and starred Robert Urquhart, John Bentley and Susan Stephen.[1] In the 1890s British pioneers settle in Kenya. It was released in the United States as Outlaw Safari.

In 1957 exploitation film specialists American International Pictures acquired the rights as the studio's first foreign made feature film[2], retitled it White Huntress and released it in an edited black and white movie as a double feature with a shockumentary Naked Africa.[3]

John Bentley later had the lead in the African Patrol television series that was produced by George Breakston and shot in Kenya.

Plot

Jim and Paul Dobson are a pair of brothers who are White Hunters in 1890 British East Africa. Paul seeks to make his fortune by finding the location of an elephants' graveyard a friend told him about before he died. The penniless pair decide to get near the location and get a wagon by hiring themselves out to protect and hunt game for a wagon train of settlers heading for Blood Mountain in the land of the Masai. Paul fools their party by taking them on a more dangerous route in order to locate the ivory of the graveyard. Enroute they pick up Mr Seth a prospector who is vague about the whereabouts of his fellow prospectors. The party faces danger from both the local fauna and natives.

Cast

  • Robert Urquhart ... Jim Dobson
  • John Bentley ... Paul Dobson
  • Susan Stephen ... Ruth Meecham
  • Alan Tarlton ... Mr. Seth
  • Howarth Wood ... Thomas Meecham
  • Morea Soutter ... Catherine Johnson
  • Tom Lithgow ... Peter Johnson
  • Maureen Connell ... Liz Johnson
  • Reginald Smart ... Captain Mann
  • Kip Kamoi ... Maasai Chief

References

  1. ↑ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/34958
  2. ↑ p. 166 Smith, Gary A. The American International Pictures Video Guide McFarland & Company, 2009
  3. ↑ Gary A. Smith, American International Pictures: The Golden Years, Bear Manor Media 2013 p 59


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