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Añade un argumento en tu idiomaIn the 19th century, during the German colonial rule, railway engineer Robert Adamson arrives in the Kilimanjaro Region to finish building a railroad through hostile territory.In the 19th century, during the German colonial rule, railway engineer Robert Adamson arrives in the Kilimanjaro Region to finish building a railroad through hostile territory.In the 19th century, during the German colonial rule, railway engineer Robert Adamson arrives in the Kilimanjaro Region to finish building a railroad through hostile territory.
- Dirección
- Guión
- Reparto principal
Hyma Beckley
- Passenger
- (sin acreditar)
George Holdcroft
- Passenger
- (sin acreditar)
Lola Morice
- Passenger
- (sin acreditar)
Reseñas destacadas
ROBERT TAYLOR nearing the end of his career was still making robust adventure films and fitting the roles as well as he did earlier in time. Here he's the safari leader assigned to building a railroad and dealing with treacherous convicts and restless natives while venturing to take a trip through dangerous Watusha territory.
There's plenty of colorful location scenery to create a vivid picture of the long trek and the usual number of obstacles thrown into his path before he and his group reach their destination. It's a story that borrows heavily from the outline of "King Solomon's Mines" without delving into the background of its characters but just directed in routine adventure style by director Richard Thorpe, who had once guided Taylor through several of his MGM films in the old days.
ANTHONY NEWLEY lends breezy support as Taylor's bumbling assistant but the accent is not on the supporting cast of humans but the many African animals that are viewed along the way. Along for the search for her father is pretty ANNE AUBREY in a purely decorative role.
Summing up: Routine safari adventure is enhanced by some handsome location photography and the many wild animals spotted during the trek.
There's plenty of colorful location scenery to create a vivid picture of the long trek and the usual number of obstacles thrown into his path before he and his group reach their destination. It's a story that borrows heavily from the outline of "King Solomon's Mines" without delving into the background of its characters but just directed in routine adventure style by director Richard Thorpe, who had once guided Taylor through several of his MGM films in the old days.
ANTHONY NEWLEY lends breezy support as Taylor's bumbling assistant but the accent is not on the supporting cast of humans but the many African animals that are viewed along the way. Along for the search for her father is pretty ANNE AUBREY in a purely decorative role.
Summing up: Routine safari adventure is enhanced by some handsome location photography and the many wild animals spotted during the trek.
This is a clicked version of all the African adventure films that came out in the fifties.It might have had a chance with a youthful leading man.Robert Taylor looks an old man at 48 though it does not seem slightly risible to the writers that a romance with a 21 year old Anne Aubrey is somewhat unlikely.Well photographed scenery is about the only bright spot.Assuming it is not stock shots.
Robert Taylor arrives in Africa to survey a route from Mombasa to Lake Victoria for a railroad. Of course British policy against the slave trade has some of the locals up in arms and the fact that Taylor makes it clear his company will not be permitting the transport of slaves makes him a few enemies, chiefly Gregoire Aslan the big honcho among Arab slave traders.
Taylor's got a friend in the enemy camp though. Young John Dimech came over on the boat with Taylor and he's Aslan's son, recently educated in an English prep school where he's taken in some western ideas. He hitches a ride with Taylor, Anthony Newley and Anne Aubrey on the surveying expedition. Aubrey is along to locate her father and fiancé who've disappeared into the interior.
One of the previous reviewers remarked about the good location photography in East Africa that highlights Killers of Kilimanjaro. It's my contention, expressed elsewhere in other reviews that ever since King Solomon's Mines and The African Queen, phony backlot jungles were just not going to do for the movie going public.
The story is not as good as either of those other films, but Killers of Kilimanjaro is good routine action adventure film and the cast give a good account of themselves. Anthony Newley has some funny moments as Taylor's tenderfoot assistant and Allan Cuthbertson for me stands out in the cast as Aubrey's dissolute fiancé.
Taylor's got a friend in the enemy camp though. Young John Dimech came over on the boat with Taylor and he's Aslan's son, recently educated in an English prep school where he's taken in some western ideas. He hitches a ride with Taylor, Anthony Newley and Anne Aubrey on the surveying expedition. Aubrey is along to locate her father and fiancé who've disappeared into the interior.
One of the previous reviewers remarked about the good location photography in East Africa that highlights Killers of Kilimanjaro. It's my contention, expressed elsewhere in other reviews that ever since King Solomon's Mines and The African Queen, phony backlot jungles were just not going to do for the movie going public.
The story is not as good as either of those other films, but Killers of Kilimanjaro is good routine action adventure film and the cast give a good account of themselves. Anthony Newley has some funny moments as Taylor's tenderfoot assistant and Allan Cuthbertson for me stands out in the cast as Aubrey's dissolute fiancé.
Rather than the misleading title, the name on the credits as director of the reliably uninspired Richard Thorpe warns you what to expect from this lacklustre copy of 'King Solomon's Mines' with regular cuts away to travelogue shots of zebras, giraffes, crocodiles and so on.
Poor Earl Cameron is required to wear feathers and bones as a witch doctor. But Anthony Newley's 'funny' Englishman is if anything equally demeaning, and Robert Taylor's condescending treatment of him endears you to neither.
Poor Earl Cameron is required to wear feathers and bones as a witch doctor. But Anthony Newley's 'funny' Englishman is if anything equally demeaning, and Robert Taylor's condescending treatment of him endears you to neither.
A British adventure; A story set during German colonial rule of Tanganyika in 19th Century East Africa. It is about an American engineer who arrives in the Mount Kilimanjaro region to finish building a railroad but he is consistently beset by hostile natives and wild beasts. This film was inspired by the story of the Tsavo maneating lions recounted in the African Bush Adventures by J.A. Hunter and Daniel P. Mannix.
This is a colourful action adventure with some moments of mild suspense and specks of good humour and features wildlife in attractive locations in Moshi, Tanganyika. Robert Taylor plays the indefatigable hero with panache and grace, faced with an assortment of tribulations, including wild animals, cannibals, slave traders. Anne Aubrey plays a rather bland love interest providing no real spark and so it relies on the landscape and exotic culture for diversion. Maltese actor John Dimech ("Lawrence of Arabia") gives delightful support as a young Arab boy. The story is straightforward, depicting indigenous races as unenlightened, merciless or plain greedy, and Anthony Newley is portrayed as an emasculated Brit who regains some self-respect. The romance is underplayed which gives it a monotone feel. All in all, it is a film that progresses to a hectic pace though it has some old-fashioned morals.
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- País de origen
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- Títulos en diferentes países
- Killers of Kilimanjaro
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Nairobi, Kenia(tribal village and exteriors)
- Empresa productora
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- 1077 US$
- Duración1 hora 31 minutos
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was Los asesinos del Kilimanjaro (1959) officially released in India in English?
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