Simba (film)

Simba is a 1955 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Virginia McKenna and Basil Sydney.^[1] A British family living in East Africa become embroiled in the Mau Mau Uprising.

Cast

Dirk Bogarde - Alan Howard
Donald Sinden - Inspector Drummond
Virginia McKenna - Mary Crawford
Basil Sydney - Mr Crawford
Marie Ney - Mrs Crawford
Joseph Tomelty - Doctor Hughes
Earl Cameron - Karanja
Orlando Martins - Headman
Ben Johnson - Kimani
Frank Singuineau - Waweru
Huntley Campbell - Joshua
Slim Harris - Chege
Glyn Lawson - Mundati
Harry Quashie - Thakla
John Chandos - Settler
Desmond Roberts - Colonel Bridgeman
Errol John - African Inspector

References

^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/50759

External links

Cinema of the United Kingdom

Films by year
(Films A–Z)

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and studios

Active	Aardman Animations BBC Films British Lion Films Ealing Studios Elstree Studios Eon Productions Film4 Productions Goldcrest Films Hammer Film Productions HandMade Films London Films Palace Pictures The Pinewood Studios Group (Pinewood Studios Shepperton Studios) S4C Films Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden Wimbledon Studios Working Title Films

Former	Amicus Productions Bryanston Films (UK) Denham Film Studios Gainsborough Pictures Rank Organisation Warwick Films

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Category
Commons

Films directed by Brian Desmond Hurst

1930s	The Tell-Tale Heart (1934) Irish Hearts (1934) Ourselves Alone (1936) The Tenth Man (1936) Sensation (1936) Glamorous Night (1937) Prison Without Bars (1938) On the Night of the Fire (1939) The Lion Has Wings (1939)

1940s	Dangerous Moonlight (1941) Alibi (1942) The Hundred Pound Window (1944) Hungry Hill (1947) The Mark of Cain (1947) Trottie True (1949)

1950s	Scrooge (1951) Malta Story (1953) Simba (1955) The Black Tent (1956) Dangerous Exile (1957) Behind the Mask (1958)

1960s	His and Hers (1951) Playboy of the Western World (1963)