"A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based on the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950s."
Dirk Bogarde
as Alan Howard
Donald Sinden
as Inspector Drummond
Virginia McKenna
as Mary Crawford
Basil Sydney
as Mr Crawford
Marie Ney
as Mrs Crawford
Joseph Tomelty
as Doctor Hughes
Earl Cameron
as Karanja
Orlando Martins
as Headman
Frank Singuineau
as Waweru
Huntley Campbell
as Joshua
Slim Harris
as Chege
Glyn Lawson
as Mundati
Harry Quashie
as Thakla
John Chandos
as Settler
Desmond Roberts
as Colonel Bridgeman
Errol John
as African Inspector
Ben Johnson
as Kimani
Peter De Sarigny
Producer
Brian Desmond Hurst
Director
John Baines
Screenplay
Francis Chagrin
Music
Anthony Perry
Novel
Geoffrey Unsworth
Director of Photography