Coast of Skeletons

Coast of Skeletons
US poster from 1965
Directed by	Robert Lynn
Produced by	Harry Alan Towers
Screenplay by	Anthony Scott Veitch
Story by	Harry Alan Towers
Based on	Sanders of the River by Edgar Wallace
Starring	Richard Todd Dale Robertson Heinz Drache Marianne Koch
Music by	Christopher Whelen
Cinematography	Stephen Dade
Edited by	John Trumper
Production company	Towers of London Films S.A. Film Studios
Distributed by	Towers of London
Release dates	19 March 1965 (1965-03-19) (South Africa) 23 August 1965 (1965-08-23) (UK)
Running time	91 min.
Country	United Kingdom South Africa
Language	English

Coast of Skeletons is a 1965 British-South African adventure film, directed by Robert Lynn and starring Richard Todd and Dale Robertson. It is a sequel to the 1963 film Death Drums Along the River, and just as that film, it uses the characters from Edgar Wallace's 1911 novel Sanders of the River and Zoltán Korda's 1935 film based on the novel, but placed in a totally different story.

Plot

Following independence, the unnamed British colony where Commissioner Harry Sanders has been working for many years sacks its British police force. So Sanders returns to London, where he soon finds work for an insurance company, which wants him to oversee a project to dredge for diamonds in the shallow waters off South West Africa.

Sanders soon finds himself drawn into a web of insurance fraud, a secret hunt for World War II gold bullion, and a rivalrous love triangle between a flamboyant American diamond prospector, a former German U-Boat commander in the employ of the American, and the German’s very young wife.

Main cast

• Richard Todd as Commissioner Harry Sanders
• Dale Robertson as A.J. Magnus
• Heinz Drache as Janny von Koltze
• Marianne Koch as Helga
• Elga Andersen as Elisabeth von Koltze
• Derek Nimmo as Tom Hamilton
• Gabriel Bayman as Charlie Singer
• George Leech as Carlo Seton
• Gordon Mulholland as Mr. Spyker
• Josh du Toit as Hajo Petersen
• Dietmar Schönherr as Piet van Houten

External links

• Coast of Skeletons in the British Film Institute's "Explore film..." database
• Coast of Skeletons at the British Board of Film Classification
• Coast of Skeletons at IMDb