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Odongo

Titre original : Odongo: An Adventure of the African Frontier
  • 1956
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  • 1h 25min
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Odongo (1956)
AventureDrame

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueIn Kenya, a white trader of exotic animals is mentoring and caring for an African boy but is annoyed by his new female replacement veterinarian and must deal with a disgruntled former employ... Tout lireIn Kenya, a white trader of exotic animals is mentoring and caring for an African boy but is annoyed by his new female replacement veterinarian and must deal with a disgruntled former employee.In Kenya, a white trader of exotic animals is mentoring and caring for an African boy but is annoyed by his new female replacement veterinarian and must deal with a disgruntled former employee.

  • Réalisation
    • John Gilling
  • Scénario
    • John Gilling
    • Islin Auster
  • Casting principal
    • Rhonda Fleming
    • Macdonald Carey
    • Juma
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  • NOTE IMDb
    5,3/10
    171
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    • Réalisation
      • John Gilling
    • Scénario
      • John Gilling
      • Islin Auster
    • Casting principal
      • Rhonda Fleming
      • Macdonald Carey
      • Juma
    • 3avis d'utilisateurs
    • 1avis de critique
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Rôles principaux13

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    Rhonda Fleming
    Rhonda Fleming
    • Pamela Muir
    Macdonald Carey
    Macdonald Carey
    • Steve Stratton
    Juma
    • Odongo
    Eleanor Summerfield
    Eleanor Summerfield
    • Celia Watford
    Francis De Wolff
    Francis De Wolff
    • George Watford
    • (as Francis de Wolff)
    Earl Cameron
    Earl Cameron
    • Hassan
    Dan Jackson
    Dan Jackson
    • Walla
    Michael Caridia
    • Lester Watford
    Errol John
    Errol John
    • Mr. Bawa
    Leonard Sachs
    Leonard Sachs
    • Game Warden
    Paul Hardtmuth
    Paul Hardtmuth
    • Mohammed
    Bartholomew Sketch
    • Leni
    Lionel Ngakane
    • Leni's Brother
    • Réalisation
      • John Gilling
    • Scénario
      • John Gilling
      • Islin Auster
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    6SnoopyStyle

    old timey Africa

    Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) is a hard-driving animal trapper in Kenya. He fires Walla for poor work. Odongo is his young assistant. He's expecting a new vet and is shocked to find a woman, Pamela Muir (Rhonda Fleming). He insists on sending her home as soon as possible.

    Stratton is definitely not a cuddly beautiful leading man. He's hard, colonial, business-oriented, and a male chauvinist. In other words, he is very fitting for the time and the place. I don't care if they get together, but I do understand the chemistry especially considering the era. Rhonda Fleming is a beauty although not as remembered as the iconic beauties of that era. Her semi-retirement and limited late life filming probably contributed to that. Of course, he can't resists her and she has to love the prickly leading man. As for movie, it has the animals, the locals, and the locations when they are away from the sound stage. It's an old timey colonial African adventure.
    6BrianDanaCamp

    African wildlife adventure with unlikely stars

    When I saw that ODONGO (1956) starred Rhonda Fleming and Macdonald Carey, I assumed it would be another African potboiler with an embittered hero, a footloose American girl, some steamy romance, and lots of chases through the jungle and battles with the natives and such. (Think JIVARO, with Fleming and Fernando Lamas.) Imagine my surprise when the film's credits came on accompanied by a jaunty, saccharine children's song about "Odongo, the animals' friend" (sung by the Coronets). For a second there, I thought I'd slipped in a copy of "Kimba, the White Lion." What was this film going to be about?

    Well, it turns out to be a mildly entertaining tale about the antics of captured African animals and their human keepers and caretakers. Carey plays Steve Stratton, a hunter who collects animals for zoos and circuses, and Fleming plays Pamela Muir, the shapely red-headed veterinarian newly hired to monitor the health of the animals being held for their buyers. When Stratton had hired "P.J. Muir," he didn't know she was a woman and is a bit upset, thinking the job will be too much for her. He urges her to leave but allows her to stay until he can find a new vet. In the meantime, there are plenty of animals to take care of and Muir plunges into her work with courage and dedication. Odongo is a spirited adolescent Indian boy (played by Juma) who works for Stratton, feeding and caring for the animals and also serving the whites at dinnertime. (Man, do they work this poor kid.) Stratton is an occasionally harsh father figure to the boy, scolding him for developing overly close relationships with the animals and taking him hunting to try to get him to learn to shoot antelopes (to get meat for the camp), all to no avail. The boy can't bring himself to kill.

    Most of the film consists of slices of life in and around the camp and on the hunts for new animals. At one point, natives seek help when a woman in their village has complications during childbirth. Stratton refuses, but Muir insists on going and helping out. Serious conflict is introduced when Walla, a disgruntled native who'd been fired by Stratton, sneaks into camp one night, frees all the animals and then sets fire to the place. Odongo is blamed for the crime and he runs away. Walla finds Odongo and abducts him. When Walla is identified as the culprit by a wounded witness, whites and local natives join in the hunt. The chase is on.

    It's not clear what audience the film was aimed at. There's more than enough animal antics and interaction with the endearing Odongo to make child viewers happy and comedy relief is provided when a visiting English buyer arrives with his ditzy wife and spoiled son. However, the adult drama involving Muir and Stratton and their inevitable romance might bore the kiddies, even though it does a good job of holding adults' interest, especially if, like me, you're a huge fan of Rhonda Fleming. Still, there's enough animal action sprinkled throughout to make the whole thing worthwhile viewing overall. Some amusing bits include a chimp playing with a dog and a baby rhino palling around with an elephant family.

    Some of the actions might strike modern sensibilities as unnecessarily cruel. At one point when Stratton and his crew come upon a herd of elephants, Stratton barks out the order, "I want three babies," and the crew obliges him. The notion that it's okay to blithely steal elephant babies away from their mothers simply to feed the appetites of zoo and circus audiences is not one that would find easy acceptance today.

    The film mixes location scenes of the actors in Africa with shots of them in studio recreations. One unconvincing bit has Rhonda in the studio covering her eyes and ducking as elephants stampede around her in rear projection. Her hair and makeup never even get mussed. Still, she does interact often enough with actual wildlife, including a lame elephant, a rowdy chimpanzee named "Ugly Puss," and various lion cubs to earn props for the kind of fearlessness that few Technicolor glamour queens of the time would have displayed.

    The two leads are both very good and their characters are a bit more layered than they'd be in an actual full-fledged children's film. Juma, who plays Odongo, seems at home with all the animals and appears to be having a great time. He also played a character named Odongo the same year in a much more violent African adventure, SAFARI, which, like ODONGO, was a Warwick Film Production (England). There are some notable Anglo-African actors in the cast, including Earl Cameron and Errol John as two of Stratton's native assistants, and Dan Jackson as Walla. Cameron had a key role in the English racial drama, SAPPHIRE (1959), and appeared as James Bond's Bahamian contact in THUNDERBALL (1965). John appeared in THE SINS OF RACHEL CADE, PT 109 and GUNS AT BATASI. Jackson co-starred as Neb in MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (1961) and appeared in the pirate adventure, A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA. This was an English film co-produced with Columbia Pictures.

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    • Anecdotes
      Columbia studio boss Harry Cohn promised Rhonda Fleming an African trip and her choice of leading man from contract players Macdonald Carey and Jack Lemmon. She opted for the more experienced Carey and added in a 1994 interview, "I think Jack owes me for not making 'Odongo'"
    • Gaffes
      When the baboon grabs Celia Watford's scarf, the shot outside the car shows an arm in the window of the car that does not belong to any of the characters.
    • Citations

      Odongo: Give Odongo a kiss, Ugly Puss. Good girl.

    • Connexions
      Referenced in Man About the House: Home & Away (1975)
    • Bandes originales
      Odongo (Title Theme)
      (uncredited)

      Written by George Melachrino

      Performed by the The Coronets

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 21 juin 1957 (France)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Odongo an Adventure of the African Frontier
    • Lieux de tournage
      • East Africa, Africa(exteriors, Samburu tribesmen, Steve Stratton's farm)
    • Société de production
      • Warwick Film Productions
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      1 heure 25 minutes
    • Mixage
      • Mono
    • Rapport de forme
      • 2.35 : 1

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