Sands of the Kalahari 08/23/25

Cy Endfield’s intense African survival adventure purports to teach lessons about the Territorial Imperative and the easy slide to savagery when civilization is far away. Plane-wreck survivors in a remote African desert must fight the local baboon population for food and water. Stuart Whitman, Stanley Baker and Nigel Davenport are tempted by the female castaway, Susannah York. It’s certainly realistic, if too insistent in its thesis that humans are No Damn Good. But it will delight nihilistic survivalists. On Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics.
08/23/25