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Wings over Africa

1936 · 63 min

A brisk old-fashioned jungle adventure with a whodunit twist, mixing dusty derring-do, a light romance and a sudden streak of menace.

Tagline
Adventure Romance and Death in the Jungle!
Overview
Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the body addressed to a clerk in London named Wilkins . Cooper goes to Wilkins in London and tells him that his brother, whose body they had found, has left a map and a deed to a large diamond mine. Wilkins decides to go to Africa with Cooper to find the mine and, in order to speed up and finance their venture, they give a third interest to Carol Reade and her partner John Trevor), who operate a barnstorming airplane service. In Africa, close to the mine location, they are greeted by some tough gentlemen named Collins and Quincy who have terrorized the natives and lorded over the region, who quickly discover the reason for the party's mission. They join, unasked, in the race for the diamonds. The race is interrupted by the death of Trevor who is found knifed in his bunk.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • greed
  • betrayal
  • mystery
  • love
  • survival
Places
  • wilderness
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror2
Humour3
Realism6
Romance5
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
action, adventure, crime, mystery, romance
Directed by
Ladislao Vajda
Written by
Patrick Kirwan, Reginald Long
Starring
Joan Gardner, Ian Colin, James Harcourt, James Carew, James Craven, Alan Napier, Phil Thomas, Charles Oliver
Cinematography
James Wilson
Runtime
63 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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