Duel in the Jungle (1954) on Netflix
Insurance investigator Scott Walters comes to London to question diamond broker Perry Henderson about his policy. Henderson is reported lost at sea, and Walters follows Marian Taylor to Africa.
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Plot summary
Scott Walters works as an insurance investigator in America. His firm sends him to London to interview Perry Henderson, who runs the diamond house Henderson House, about a policy that leaves Henderson's elderly mother as its only beneficiary. Henderson's cousin Arthur says Perry is diving in the sea off Portuguese East Africa, and Walters objects that the risk would void the policy. Walters takes an interest in Perry's secretary, Marian Taylor, and learns she is engaged to Perry. A newspaper then reports that Perry went overboard from the Nigeria in a storm. Walters calls at Marian's flat and finds her landlady cleaning it; Marian has flown off. He follows her to South Africa and boards the Nigeria, where Marian is a passenger and Pitt, an English salesman, shares his compartment.
Cast
- Charles Goldneras Martell
- Michael Matakaas Vincent
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Duel in the Jungle (1954)
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- British assistant director Anthony Kelly, 32, died during the shoot on 25 September 1953 when he was thrown from an overturned canoe into a whirlpool on the Zambesi River near Livingstone, Zambia; the two hunters and an African guide in the boat reached safety.
- After audiences at a 29 July 1954 Los Angeles preview jeered at the film's ending, Warner Bros. re-edited the final scenes; the British release ran 105 minutes while the American version ran 98.
- The film was originally going to star Yvonne De Carlo and Joseph Cotten, and in April 1953 Sam Marx was trying to set it up in London with Cotten and Gene Tierney.
- Michael Mataka, who sings "The Night Belongs to Me" in the film, became the first person of African descent to serve as commissioner of the Zambian Police.
