Wings over Africa
4.3
“Adventure Romance and Death in the Jungle!”
Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the body addressed to a clerk in London named Wilkins . Cooper goes to Wilkins in London and tells him that his brother, whose body they had found, has left a map and a deed to a large diamond mine. Wilkins decides to go to Africa with Cooper to find the mine and, in order to speed up and finance their venture, they give a third interest to Carol Reade and her partner John Trevor), who operate a barnstorming airplane service. In Africa, close to the mine location, they are greeted by some tough gentlemen named Collins and Quincy who have terrorized the natives and lorded over the region, who quickly discover the reason for the party's mission. They join, unasked, in the race for the diamonds. The race is interrupted by the death of Trevor who is found knifed in his bunk.
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Cast
9 people
Joan Gardner
Carol Reade
Known for
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Gay Purr-ee
Ian Colin
Tony Cooper
Also in
The Quatermass Experiment
It's Never Too Late to Mend
James Harcourt
Wilkins
Known for
Night Train to Munich
Obsession
James Carew
Norton
Also in
Midnight at Madame Tussaud's
Helen of Four Gates
James Craven
John Trevor
Alan Napier
Redfern
Known for
Batman
The Sword in the Stone
Phil Thomas
Quincey
Also in
School for Husbands
Beloved Impostor
Charles Oliver
Collins
Known for
The Lady Vanishes
Rufus Fennell
Saoud
Also in
Jericho
Ladislao Vajda Director · Patrick Kirwan Screenplay Reginald Long Screenplay
First release September 23, 1936 · Produced in United Kingdom
Production
Premier-Stafford Productions
Production
United Kingdom
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · September 23, 1936
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No release date listed for United States.
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