Guns of Darkness (1962)
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Synopsis of Guns of Darkness
This drama by director Anthony Asquith, a noted lynchpin in British cinematic history, may wear too many hats to be identified as either an adventure, a treatise on non-violence, a psychological study, or whatever. It is all of these things as it starts out in the midst of a revolution in a fictional South American country. David Niven is Tom Jordan, the sometimes disagreeable manager of a British plantation. When it becomes apparent that the leader of the country will be forced to flee for his life, Tom and his wife Claire (Leslie Caron) end up chauffeuring the wounded President Rivera (David Opatoshu) out of there. Tom and Claire are in the midst of marital troubles -- which tend to pale when their car lands in quicksand in a river bed, or when she is unexpectedly threatened by a frightening band of young men while out exploring an abandoned village. And for the pacifist Tom, the worse is yet to come when he is forced to either kill or be killed. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Guns of Darkness
- Leslie Caron - Claire Jordan
- James Robertson Justice - Hugo Bryant
- Derek Godfrey - Hernandez
- Ian Hunter - Dr. Swann
- Sandor Eles - Lt. Gomez
- Tutte Lemkow - Gabriel's Cousin
- Peter Allenby - Sergeant
- David Niven - Tom Jordan
- David Opatoshu - President Rivera
- Eleanor Summerfield - Mrs. Bastian
- Richard Pearson - Bastian
- Steven Scott - Gabriel
- Barry Shawzin - General Zoreno
- John Carson - 1st Officer
- Director(s):
- Anthony Asquith
- Writer(s):
- John Mortimer
- Producer(s):
- Thomas Clyde
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