Word: shepperton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most elaborate location picture yet turned out by a British studio. Zoltan Korda, brother of famed Producer-Director Alexander Korda, took an expedition to Africa, stayed there four months making background shots of the Congo River, tribal ceremonies among half a dozen brands of savages. At Shepperton-on-Thames. London Films' copy of an African village, complete with thatched huts, war canoes and burning-stake for prisoners, aroused so much excitement that the Illustrated London News devoted a whole page to reproducing it. To act in the story, derived from Edgar Wallace. Director Korda hired a high-grade black & white...