Ashanti (1979) on Netflix
R19791h 58mActionAdventureDrama
Slave traders seize Anansa Linderby while she swims during a World Health Organization medical mission in West Africa. Her husband David searches for her.
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Plot summary
David Linderby and his wife Anansa work as doctors for the World Health Organization. Their medical mission brings an inoculation program to a village in West Africa. While David photographs the dancers, Anansa swims alone and slave traders seize her, taking her for an Ashanti local. Suleiman leads the raiders. The police cannot find her, and the region's authorities deny that a slave trade exists. Word reaches David that Suleiman means to sell Anansa to Prince Hassan.
Cast
- Tyrone Jacksonas Dongaro
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ashanti (1979)
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- Ashanti shot on location in Kenya starting in April, and two weeks into filming director Richard Sarafian was fired and replaced by Richard Fleischer.
- The film's female lead, Beverly Todd, and its cinematographer were fired, and Savalas had to drop out of the cast.
- Director Richard Fleischer and co-star Beverly Johnson were supposedly removed from filming two-thirds of the way through the shoot because of sunstroke, but a 2013 Blu-ray interview with Johnson makes no reference to it, suggesting the story may be a myth.
- George MacDonald Fraser, who had recently adapted Tai-Pan, was commissioned to work on the script of Ashanti to help boost Sharif's role of Prince Hassan.
