A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through the Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to rescue $50 million in uncut diamonds.

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Claire
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Doctor Wreid
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Bussier
Olivier Despax ...
Surrier
Guy Deghy ...
Delage
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Kataki
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Ubi
Alan Gifford ...
Jansen
David Bauer ...
Adams
Murray Kash ...
Cochrane
John Serret ...
Father Dominic
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A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through the Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to rescue $50 million in uncut diamonds.

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You Don't Kill for Women, You Don't Kill for Diamonds, You Kill Because You're Paid for it! See more »

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3 July 1968 (USA)  »

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Ciemna strona slonca  »

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Trivia

Showbusiness trade paper Variety erroneously reported in its review that this Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie was shot in Africa but in fact this movie was filmed Out of Africa. The picture's exteriors were lensed in Jamaica in the Carribean as it could not be shot on the dark continent due to political unrest. Ironically, around the same, another picture from MGM, Graham Greene's The Comedians (1967), was set in the Carribean, but filmed in Benin, West Africa. See more »

Goofs

Apparently no blank ammo was available for the .50 caliber heavy machine guns carried on the train. When they are "fired" at the attacking UN plane, there is no recoil or movement of the ammo belt. The muzzle flash was painted onto the film later. See more »

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Curry: The gun's Chinese Ruffo, paid for by Russian rubles. The steel probably came from a West German factory built by French francs. Then it was flown out here on a South African airline probably subsidized by The United States. I don't think he got very far.
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Main Theme From Dark Of The Sun
Written and Performed by Jacques Loussier Et Son Orchestre
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A good movie with a fine cast
15 July 2001 | by (Nykoebing Falster, Denmark) – See all my reviews

Though I am not usually a fan of war movies, nor of violent movies, I am a fan of Rod Taylor and have been, ever since I saw him first at a tender age, that was in "The time Machine". When I first saw Dark of the Sun, I thought it very violent, but Rod Taylors performance as the mercenary captain Curry stood out. His character had a sort of integrity not often seen in such movies, and he was playing a much more mature part than in roles he usually had. This movie is undoubtedly his best, perhaps apart from "Young Cassidy". His captain Curry is a man, on whose sore toes you don´t want to step, a man who perhaps is selling his gun but not his conscience.


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