Sands of the Kalahari
Directed by Cy Endfield
Written by Cy Endfield from a novel by William Mulvihill
1965/USA/UK
Joseph M. Schenk Enterprises/Pendennis Productions
First viewing/Netflix rental
[box] “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” ― Leon C. Megginson[/box]
Plenty of action and violence in this story of passengers stranded in the desert after a plane crash.
A small prop plane crashes in the midst of the vast Kalahari desert in Southern Africa. Passenger Brian O’Brian (Stuart Whitman) grabs the only rifle on board and immediately assumes cave man mode. He lays claim to Grace Monckton (Susannah York) the only female survivor and starts slaying animals for food.
After some days, Brian begins to view his fellow passengers as competition for scarce recources and forces them one-by-one into almost certainly unsurvivable treks deeper into the desert. The second half of the film is filled with man-animal and man-on-man violence and leads to a very satisfying ending.
If you like this sort of thing, this movie is quite OK. The animal slaughter was a bit too much for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wuDY-1GzEI
The clip I could find was a giant spoiler
