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Death Drums Along The River 83 minutes, UK/Germany/Zambia (1963), U
(3.0)
Rating: 3.0 Stars
Our rating:
Average user rating (4.8 / 179 votes)

Nineteen sixties thriller with cop Richard Todd heading into deepest Africa to foil a diamond smuggling operation

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Death Drums Along The River: While investigating the murder of a fellow police officer in Africa, ex-pat Inspector Harry Sanders (Todd) discovers links to a diamond smuggling operation working out of an area up-river. All clues lead him to a hospital run by Dr Schneider (Rilla) and his assistant director, Dr Weiss (Lieven). At first, Todd suspects that local tradesman Bongola (Sabela) is behind the crimes...
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