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Release year: 1937

Storyline

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

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Cast

Paul Robeson — Umbopa
Cedric Hardwicke — Allan Quartermain
Roland Young — Commander Good
John Loder — Sir Henry Curtis

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Did you know

• The film was thought lost for years. It was believed the negative was ceded to MGM when the studio acquired remake rights in 1950. When MGM denied it, it was believed to have been assigned to Pinewood Lake on the studio's property, a watery grave that contains cans and reels of unstable nitrate films. When it did turn up, it was in Rank's Pinewood vaults.

• Some exteriors were shot on location in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, using stand-ins for the lead actors. No cast members traveled to South Africa from England to work on the film.

• Cedric Hardwicke's distinctive voice and aristocratic accent is heard narrating the story here, as it would be heard 8 years later narrating The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) and 16 years later narrating The War of the Worlds (1953).