Film
Simba
United Kingdom- Age rating
- 12
- Director
- Brian Desmond Hurst
- Year
- 1955
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s.
Top cast
Dirk Bogarde
Alan Howard
Donald Sinden
Inspector Drummond
Virginia McKenna
Mary Crawford
Basil Sydney
Mr Crawford
Marie Ney
Mrs Crawford
Joseph Tomelty
Doctor Hughes
Earl Cameron
Karanja
Orlando Martins
Headman
Frank Singuineau
Waweru
Huntley Campbell
Joshua
Slim Harris
Chege
Glyn Lawson
Mundati
Harry Quashie
Thakla
John Chandos
Settler
Desmond Roberts
Colonel Bridgeman
Errol John
African Inspector
Ben Johnson
Kimani
Directed by
Brian Desmond Hurst
Written by
John Baines
Produced by
Peter De Sarigny