Richard Todd and his first appearance as Inspector Harry Sanders
It's a good thing that Edgar Wallace also wrote adventure novels set in Africa (Sanders vom Strom), which meant that under his name you could not only make horror crime novels, but also adventure films that had just become fashionable. The Briton Harry Alan Towers produced the film in South Africa, Constantin Film took over the distribution and was able to attract 1.5 million visitors (source: InsideKino) to West German cinemas.
Harry Sanders (Richard Todd) is faced with mysterious cases of diamond smuggling. He soon realizes that Dr. Schneider (Walter Rilla) has something to do with it. It's a good thing that the tough inspector meets the attractive doctor Inge Jung (Marianne Koch), who is about to take up a position in the jungle clinic. The two of them learn from Assistant Dr. Weiss (Albert Lieven), nurse Marlene (blonde as always: Vivi Bach) and the bright Jim Hunter (Robert Arden). Will the mystery of the diamonds be solved?
Wild animals, beautiful landscape shots, but the tension is a bit lacking. Director Lawrence Huntington probably still met the audience taste of the time. And Richard Todd (1919-2009), who fought as a soldier in the Normandy landings, was able to return in "Sanders und das Schiff des Todes."
