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Diamond Safari (1958)

Diamond Safari poster
Directed by
Gerald Mayer
Genre
crime, drama
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 07m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man gets involved with diamond smuggling while on safari in South Africa. It is a crime story based on two episodes of a television series.

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What happens

Diamond Safari is a 1958 American crime film directed by Gerald Mayer and starring Kevin McCarthy, Betty McDowall and André Morell. Filmed in South Africa in 1955, the film features the first (and only) two 30-minute episodes of a television series called African Drumbeat. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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