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...Beyond Mombasa (Columbia). "The natives," observes one sweat-drenched bwana, "are growing uneasy." Then one of them catches it right in the back-a poisoned dart from a blowgun. He's a goner, of course, as soon as the stuff hits his bloodstream. More nervous mumbling from the natives ("They say this is a bad omen"). Evil forces are clearly trying to prevent Cornel Wilde from rediscovering the uranium mine found by his late brother, poor devil, who was murdered by a steel-clawed Leopard Man. Also barring his way, on his Technicolor plunge into spine-tingling British East...
This movie might better have been titled "The Treasure of Sierra Mombasa" or "King Solomon's Mimes." With snarling distrust and open greed. Hero Wilde keeps a bloodshot eye on his brother's two partners, now his. because they are just as mean and avaricious as he is. In fact, Wilde distrusts the whole safari-even the coy lady anthropologist (Donna Reed) and her missionary uncle (Leo Genn), and certainly the natives, as shifty-eyed a pack as ever whetted spears. The snail's pace direction makes it seem they will never find that blasted mine...
...Manchurian cats which were very important members of the Ward household. When Mr. Ward finally left Nairobi for his new post in Kabul, Afghanistan, these two enormous and very intelligent animals rode in state on the specially prepared rear seat of Mr. Ward's Cadillac from Nairobi to Mombasa and later, after occupying their own cabin on board ship, from Karachi to Kabul, a trip of several thousand miles...
...Near Mombasa (pop. 85,000), chief town in the steamy coastal plain, a gang of blood-smeared Negroes buried the remains of two mutilated sheep, then crept back to their huts after taking the Mau Mau oath: "I swear to kill a white man, or may this oath kill me!" One of the oath-takers was a 31-year-old Negro servant, well known for his loyalty to Mrs. Eileen Ennis, one of Mombasa's 2,000 whites. He returned to the Ennis household with two panga knives, slashed Mrs. Ennis and stabbed her sleeping daughter. When the police...
...from Africa to Italy, examined Hemingway, who complained of aches and pains, and, as Poppa fancifully recalled the diagnosis, spotted 1) three compressed vertebrae, 2) a ruptured kidney and liver, 3) a collapsed intestine, 4) a brain concussion, 5) partial blindness, 6) bad scalp burns. Moreover, before sailing from Mombasa, Poppa had rushed off into the bush as a volunteer firefighter. There he got badly burned again but never said much about it, because by then "people would have thought I was hamming it." Now on the mend under Spain's warm spring sun, Hemingway, planning to head...