Dark of the Sun (1968) on Netflix
Approved19681h 40mAdventureDramaWar
Mercenary Curry is hired by President Ubi to pull Europeans out of a Congo mining town threatened by rebel Simbas. His real job is the diamonds in the mine's vault.
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- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb6.8/104,003 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes67%
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Plot summary
The mercenary Curry takes a job from Congolese President Ubi: bring European residents out of an isolated mining town that rebel Simbas are about to attack. The real purpose of the mission is $50 million in uncut diamonds sitting in the mine company's vault. Curry's group includes his friend Ruffo and the alcoholic Doctor Wreid, and he recruits the ex-Nazi Henlein for his military expertise. Ubi supplies a steam train and government soldiers. Because the mission breaks United Nations accords, a peacekeeping plane attacks and damages the train. At a burned-out farmhouse the group picks up Claire, a woman left traumatized.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Dark of the Sun (1968)
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- Wilbur Smith wrote the source novel in the Vumba Mountains and poured the break-up of his first marriage into the mercenary Bruce Curry. Like his first published novel, the book was banned in South Africa.
- Star Rod Taylor said he rewrote a fair amount of the script himself and helped devise a new ending for the film.
- Quentin Tarantino carried the film into Inglourious Basterds: he reused several tracks from its score, gave Rod Taylor a guest role as Winston Churchill, and had Mélanie Laurent's Jewish heroine hide behind the alias Emmanuelle Mimieux, after Dark of the Sun's star Yvette Mimieux.
