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Something of Value is a 1957 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks and starring Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, and Sidney Poitier. The film was reissued under the title Africa Ablaze . The film, based on the book of the same name by Robert Ruark, portrays the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya.
There's a minor character in Something of Value, a wealthy tourist on safari in Kenya during the 1950s Mau Mau rebellion, who goes up north of Nairobi to Lake Naivasha to go duck hunting, and upon arriving in the lake town sees white landowner execute a native Kikuyu servant on suspicion of being a Mau Mau terrorist. Later that evening he goes ...
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A 1957 drama war film about the Mau Mau uprising in British colonial Kenya. It stars Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller and Sidney Poitier, and explores the themes of racism, tribal customs and colonialism.
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- Richard Brooks
- 1957-06
Something of Value is a novel based on events that took place in Kenya Colony during the violent Mau Mau insurrection of the 1950s, an uprising that was confined almost exclusively...
- Robert Ruark
- Daniel Schwartz
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- Something of Value
In British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides. Although Peter and Kimani grew up together, Kimani soon finds that different races are treated differently.
Something of Value - (Original Trailer) Childhood friends end up on opposite sides of a bloody African uprising in Something of Value (1957), directed by Richard Brooks and starring Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier.
As Kenya's Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British colonist, find themselves on opposite sides of the struggle in this provocative drama.
