Brutes! Savages! Heroes! They're Mercenaries... They're Paid to do a Job!
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
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Classical in form, unpretentious, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
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- John Chardon TMDB · Aug 20178/10
Muscular Mayhem! Dark of the Sun (AKA:The Mercenaries) is directed by Jack Cardiff and adapted to screenplay by Ranald MacDougall (alias Quentin Werty) and Adrien Spies from Wilbur Smith's novel "The Dark of the Sun". It stars Rod Taylor, Jim Brown, Yvette Mimieux, Peter Carsten and Kenneth More. A Panavision/Metrocolor production, music is by Jacques Loussier and cinematography by Edward Scaife. A band of mercenaries embark upon a dangerous mission during the Congo Crisis... Back upon release it was met with some consternation by critics who thought it overtly violent and unpleasant, today it is met with disdain by the PC brigade who are unable to view a 1968 movie and accept it as just that! Anyone order a curry in a hurry?! Jack Cardiff's picture is a ballsy men on a mission piece, full of meaty muscular mayhem, acetylene augmented action and preposterous political postures. Wonderfully raw, story sends Bruce Curry (Taylor) and his band of not very merry men on a steam train journey based mission through the Congo. They are to retrieve some diamonds and enact the rescue of civilians caught up in the rampage of the Simbas. Enter a very fractured group dynamic - with Carsten's Swa
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Cast
- Rod TaylorCurry
- Yvette MimieuxClaire
- Peter CarstenHenlein
- Jim BrownRuffo
- Kenneth MoreDoctor Wreid
- André MorellBussier
- Olivier DespaxSurrier
- Guy DeghyDelage
- Bloke ModisaneKataki
- Calvin LockhartUbi
Crew
- Jack CardiffDirector
- Ranald MacDougallScreenplay
- Adrian SpiesScreenplay
- Wilbur SmithNovel
- Edward ScaifeDirector of Photography
- Jacques LoussierOriginal Music Composer
- Ernest WalterEditor
- George EnglundProducer
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