The Fiercest Heart

Name: The Fiercest Heart
Genre: Adventure
Released: 1961-04-30
Duration: 1 h 31 min
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Stuart Whitman, Juliet Prowse, Ken Scott

19611961
1h 31m

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6.8/10

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Adventure

Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting off Zulu attacks, one of these soldiers f... Read allTwo British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting off Zulu attacks, one of these soldiers falls in love with the trek-leader's granddaughter who has been promised to another man.Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting off Zulu attacks, one of these soldiers falls in love with the trek-leader's granddaughter who has been promised to another man.

IMDb RATING

6.8/10

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- George Sherman
- Stuart Cloete(novel)
- Edmund H. North(screenplay)
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Stuart Whitman in The Fiercest Heart (1961)

Juliet Prowse and Stuart Whitman in The Fiercest Heart (1961)

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It's the 1830s in South Africa. Stuart Whitman and Ken Scott desert from the British army and take refuge with Raymond Massey as John Brown... I mean Willem Prinsloo, leader of the Boer Great Trek into the Transvaal. There they fight Indians... I mean Zulus, and fall in love with Juliet Prowse.

This is pretty much an A Western, with the Boers substituted for Mormons, or perhaps folks on the Oregon Trail. Ellis W. Carter, who spent much of his career as cinematographer of movies like SEX KITTENS GO TO COLLEGE, shoots some magnificent landscape, and director George Sherman lets you know that he was a fine director of westerns. With Geraldine Fitzgerald, Eduard Franz and Edward Platt.

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