Release, runtime and language

1951 · 86 mins · English

Directed by

David Macdonald

Starring

Jack Hawkins, Bernard Lee, Grégoire Aslan, Ronald Adam, Dennis Price, Charles Paton

At the end of the Boer War a South African soldier hides diamonds found on a corpse. He returns to his hometown after three years, finding his former love married to a disgraced English officer. To fund a trip to recover the gems he enlists a fellow veteran, the officer and a hotel keeper. The mismatched crew heads into the bush, each seeking fortune.