Safari (1956 film)

Safari
British original 1956 promotional poster
Directed byTerence Young
Screenplay byRobert Buckner
Story byAnthony Veiller
Produced byIrving Allen
Albert R. Broccoli
StarringVictor Mature
Janet Leigh
John Justin
Roland Culver
Earl Cameron
CinematographyJohn Wilcox
Edited byMichael Gordon
Music byWilliam Alwyn
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures (UK)
Release date
  • 6 April 1956 (1956-04-06) (UK)[1]
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish, Swahili
Box office$1.4 million (US rentals)[2]
1,764,445 admissions (France)[3]

Safari is a 1956 British CinemaScope adventure film directed by Terence Young and set during the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. It stars Victor Mature, Janet Leigh, Roland Culver, John Justin, and Earl Cameron, and was intentionally cast to attract an American audience—both the hero and the lead female character are Americans, played by American actors.

  1. ^ The Times, 6 April 1956, p. 2, and 9 April 1956, p. 3: Safari – first cinema advertisement (6 April) and film review (9 April). Found in the Times Digital Archive on 18 May 2014.
  2. ^ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1956', Variety Weekly, 2 January 1957.
  3. ^ French box office for 1956 at Box Office Story

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