Sanders Of The River (1935) Paul Robeson (directed by Zoltan Korda) torrent download



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British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930's rules his area strictly but justly, and struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.





Full cast and crew for Sanders of the River (1935) 





Directed by 


Zoltan Korda    


  


Writing credits





Lajos Biró   adaptation 


Jeffrey Dell   adaptation 


Edgar Wallace   story 


Arthur Wimperis   additional dialogue 











Cast 


 Leslie Banks ...  Commissioner R.G. Sanders 


 Paul Robeson ...  Bosambo 


 Nina Mae McKinney ...  Lilongo 


 Martin Walker ...  J. Ferguson 


 Robert Cochran ...  Lieutenant Tibbets (as Robert Cochrane) 


 Richard Grey ...  Captain Hamilton 


 Tony Wane ...  King Mofolaba 


 Marqués De Portago ...  Farini 


 Eric Maturin ...  Smith 


 Allan Jeayes ...  Father O'Leary 


 Charles Carson ...  Sir John 


 Luao ...  Chief of the Wagenia (Congo) tribe 


 Kilongalonga ...  Chief of the Wagenia (Congo) tribe 


 Oboja ...  Chief of the Acholi tribe 


 Members of Acholi Tribe ...  Themselves 


 Members of Joruba Tribe ...  Themselves 


 Members of Kroo Tribe ...  Themselves 


 Members of Mendi Tribe ...  Themselves 


 Members of Sesi Tribe ...  Themselves 


 Members of Tefik Tribe ...  Themselves 


 Robert Adams ...  Bit part (uncredited) 


 Joe Cozier ...  (uncredited) 


 Bertrand Frazer ...  Makara (uncredited) 


 Beresford Gale ...  Topolaka (uncredited) 


 Jomo Kenyatta ...  Tribal chief (uncredited) 


 Orlando Martins ...  K'Lova (uncredited) 


 Anthony Papafio ...  Bosambo's Son (uncredited) 


 James Solomon ...  Kaluba (uncredited) 


 John Thomas ...  Obiboo (uncredited) 


 Deara Williams ...  Daughter of Bosambo and Lilongo (uncredited) 





Produced by 


Alexander Korda ....  producer  


  


Original Music by 


Mischa Spoliansky   (as Michael Spolianski) 


  


Cinematography by 


Osmond Borradaile    


Louis Page    


Georges Périnal    


  


Film Editing by 


Charles Crichton    


  


Production Management 


G.E.T. Grossmith ....  production manager  


  


Second Unit Director or Assistant Director 


Stanley Irving ....  assistant director  


  


Sound Department 


D. Field ....  sound  


L. Fisher ....  sound  


J. Paddon ....  sound  


A.W. Watkins ....  recording director  


  


Visual Effects by 


W. Percy Day ....  matte painter  


  


Camera and Electrical Department 


Bernard Browne ....  camera operator  


  


Editorial Department 


William Hornbeck ....  supervising editor  


  


Music Department 


Muir Mathieson ....  musical director  


  


Other crew 


Cecil Grosse ....  technical advisor  


C.O. 'Squash' Lemon ....  technical advisor  


Major C. Wallace ....  technical advisor  


Alfred Hitchcock ....  director of the first stages (uncredited)  


  


Trivia for Sanders of the River (1935) 


Some of the wonderful looking shots of African river scenes were in fact filmed on the River Thames at Shepperton.








This film had originally started as a project Alexander Korda assigned to be directed by Alfred Hitchcock, called "Wings of the Jungle". Hitchcock was only minimally involved in the earliest stages.








Jomo Kenyatta, who was President of Kenya from 1963 to 1978, had a bit part in this movie as a tribal chief.








Paul Robeson disowned this picture, telling journalists that it was the only one of his films to have been screened in Italy and Germany. However, his claim to have walked out of the premiere in disgust was a re-invention of history.





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Instrument Of Enforcement, 19 May 2009








Author:  Buffalo, New York 





Viewed today, 74 years after the film came out Sanders Of The River is a paradoxical film with the good and bad of British colonial attitudes of the 19th century. It's based on the first novel by Edgar Wallace, prolific British author who spent much time in Africa during the latter 19th and early 20th century.





Sanders played by Leslie Banks is the local administrator of an area of what is now Nigeria and a man who is confidently shouldering the white man's burden as he saw it. Nevertheless he's probably the best representative of his type in the area, someone the British see as the best in themselves.





He's taken the trouble to study the languages and cultures of the various tribes in his area and mixes in the local politics judiciously and fairly. When one of the tribal kings, Tony Wane, starts resorting to the slave trade which the British fought vigorously to suppress, Banks comes up with his own instrument of enforcement.





His instrument is rival king, Paul Robeson of a different tribe and on that the plot of Sanders Of The River turns. 





Robeson was over in the United Kingdom at the time because he could not get the kind of film roles he wanted in the USA with America hung up on stereotypical blacks. Though the film is a salute to the judiciousness and fairness of British colonial role, Robeson took the part because I believe it gave him a chance to show the real Africa. There is no way America was ever going to make this kind of film. After MGM's near disaster with Trader Horn, American companies shied from location shooting until there until The African Queen and King Solomon's Mines.





Though taking place in the Nigeria area, the film was shot on location in the Kenya colony and we learned that the first Kenyan president, Jomo Kenyatta actually was an extra in this film. Robeson gets a chance to sing a couple of songs written by Mischa Spoliansky and Arthur Winder, but are as good in the black idiom as Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. No way Paul Robeson would have sung them if they weren't.





Robeson is joined in the vocal department by Nina Mae McKinney who scored big in King Vidor's Hallelujah, but was then unable to find decent roles for a beautiful black singer. That would wait until Lena Horne came on the scene and not altogether satisfactorily done there. She plays Robeson's wife and mother of his child and her capture by the rival king sets off a potentially nasty blood bath.





Sanders Of The River though incredibly dated should be seen quite frankly because of that. Robeson's singing voice is at its best here and this is a picture of Africa you won't get in Tarzan films. 








Ripping Yarn, 3 November 2008





Author:  from Australia








Paul Robeson is the star in this Ripping Yarn, with the British keeping the 'picaninnies' under control in Nigeria. 





A number of pastoral African scenes of the National Geographic variety (if you know what I mean) are included in this story of the conflict between two tribes in the African heartland. 





Don't believe the undergraduate comments here - this is nowhere near as racist as the B grade American films made in the same era ("The Jazz Singer" for instance, and it's ilk), or TV series of the fifties - the Africans are dead glamorous and brave, and the British characters wooden and two-dimensional. 








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"Sandi the Brave, Sandi the Wise, Righter of Wrongs, Hater of Lies!", 28 May 2007





Author: from London, England








Although a source of much embarrassment (and biographical revisionism) to Paul Robeson in later years, by the standards of its day Sanders of the River isn't quite as obnoxiously racist as you might think. Unlike American films of the period, it's more patronising than openly defamatory and while he's hardly a role model, Robeson's convict-turned-king plays a more central role in the plot than Leslie Banks condescendingly paternalistic British commissioner ("Sandi the Brave, Sandi the Wise/Righter of Wrongs, Hater of Lies!"). But then, you don't expect subtlety from a story by Edgar Wallace, who many blamed for the collapse of peace talks during the Boer War because of his salacious invented newspaper stories of Boer atrocities.





As a film it holds together fairly well, with the extensive and often spectacular location footage of Africa and Shepperton riverside (all too obviously shot with stand-ins for the two stars) compensating for the Victor Herbert operetta style songs given to Robeson ("Let the rivers rattle/Onwards into battle/Make them flee like cattle"). 








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Paul Robeson as a tribal chief in Colonial Nigeria sings some songs and helps quell lawlessness., 1 November 1998





Author: from Pine Grove, California








Although the title refers to the British commissioner of the N'Gombi district of Nigeria during the Colonial days of the British Empire, Paul Robeson's magnificent rich baritone voice is easily the highlight of this well-made but dated film. Looking at it from the 90's perspective, I was appalled to see the native blacks treated as savages and children at the same time. Paul Robeson expected a different kind of film and unsuccessfully fought its release after it was completed. Leslie Banks plays Commissioner Sanders, called "Lord Sandy" by the natives, and oversees the various competing and sometimes hostile tribes. In the last five years, there has been peace among the tribes due mostly to the respect and fear of him. Robeson is a prison escapee who has been chief of the Ochuri tribe for the last five months, an illegal act without permission from Banks. He goes to Banks to claim that chiefdom, and Banks, knowing who he really is, and sensing he is a good man, proclaims him chief on the basis of those last five months. It pays off when word comes that Chief Mofolaba (Tony Wane) has been raiding other tribes to gather slaves, and Banks has Robeson and his warriors capture him and free those captives. It's a humiliation that Mofolaba swears he will revenge. Among the captives is lovely Nina Mae McKinney, who Robeson takes for his wife, and who bears him two children during the next five peaceful years. When Banks decides to take a year's leave of absence to return to London to get married, two villains spread the word that Banks is dead and there is now no law. They expect to profit by selling guns and gin to the natives. Mofolaba kills Banks' replacement and has his men kidnap McKinney to use as bait to lure Robeson to his land so he can have his revenge. Meanwhile, word gets to Banks, who hasn't yet left for London, about his replacement's death and the general lawlessness that now prevails, and he starts to return to Mofolaba's land. And Robeson takes Mofolaba's bait, but is captured and tied to a post next to the post that McKinney is tied to. Mofolaba promises him a slow death after he witnesses McKinney's death. 





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