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With John Bentley, Zena Marshall, Liam O'Leary, Alan Tarlton. Railway construction in Africa faces challenges from man-eating lions. A surveyor and doctor develop romance amidst hardships endured by white settlers braving authentic African landscapes at turn of 20th century.
- (54)
- Adventure, Drama
- Brendan J. Stafford
- 1953-08-31
Men Against the Sun is a 1952 British historical adventure film directed by Brendan J. Stafford and starring John Bentley and Zena Marshall. It depicts the attempts to construct a railway in late Victorian Africa.
23 gen 2015 · Against the Sun: Directed by Brian Peter Falk. With Garret Dillahunt, Tom Felton, Jake Abel, Nadia Parra. A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
- (6,5K)
- Biography, Drama, War
- Brian Peter Falk
- 2015-01-23
An adventure story dealing with the building of a railway in Africa at the turn of the century. It tells of a group of white people and the many difficulties that beset them, including that of two man-eating lions.
2 giorni fa · Men against the Sun. Marauding lions, wild rhinos and deadly slave traders wait on the dangerous trail from Mombasa to Uganda. Mombasa, 1890. Hawker, an engineer and adventurer, is approached by missionary Father Dowling to help establish a railway from Mombasa to Uganda.
John Bentley plays an engineer hired to oversee the building of a railway into Uganda, but his efforts are complicated by the presence of two man-eating lionesses who are eating their way through the workmen. For a film about the building of a railway line we see very little - i.e. no - building of the railway line.
An adventure story dealing with the building of a railway in Africa at the turn of the century.
