''Port Afrique'' is a 1956 British
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Bernard Victor Dryer (1918–1995). The colour film was directed by
Rudolph Maté and the adapted
screenplay was written by John Cresswell.
The film was made at
Shepperton Studios
Shepperton Studios is a film studio located in Shepperton, Surrey, England, with a history dating back to 1931. It is now part of the Pinewood Studios Group. During its early existence, the studio was branded as Sound City (not to be confused ...
with sets designed by the
art director Wilfred Shingleton
Wilfred Shingleton (January 24, 1914 – June, 1983) was an English art director. He enjoyed a distinguished career in the British film industry from his debut in 1937. Some of his early assignments were several George Formby vehicles – hugely ...
. It was filmed on location in the
Casbah
A kasbah (, also ; ar, قَـصَـبَـة, qaṣaba, lit=fortress, , Maghrebi Arabic: ), also spelled qasba, qasaba, or casbah, is a fortress, most commonly the citadel or fortified quarter of a city. It is also equivalent to the term ''alca ...
in
Algiers and in
Tangiers
Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the capi ...
and
Morocco
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.
Synopsis
Set in July 1945, the film tells the story of a returning American pilot named Rip Reardon who lost his leg during the war and a young woman, Ynez, who is accused of the murder of Rip's wife.
Cast
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Pier Angeli as Ynez
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Philip Carey
Philip Carey (born Eugene Joseph Carey, July 15, 1925February 6, 2009) was an American actor.
Early life and education
On July 15, 1925, Carey was born in Hackensack, New Jersey.[Dennis Price
Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose Price (23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) was an English actor, best remembered for his role as Louis Mazzini in the film '' Kind Hearts and Coronets'' (1949) and for his portrayal of the omnicompetent valet Jeeve ...]
as Robert Blackton
*
Eugene Deckers a Colonel Moussac
*
James Hayter as Nino
*
Anthony Newley
Anthony Newley (24 September 1931 – 14 April 1999) was an English actor, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leadin ...
as Pedro
*
Richard Molinas
Richard Molinas (17 November 1911 – 1975) was a British stage and film actor. A character actor, he appeared in a number of supporting role
A supporting character is a character in a narrative that is not the focus of the primary storylin ...
as Captain
*
Christopher Lee as Franz Vermes
* Guy De Monceau as Police Driver
* Jacques Cey as Waiter
* Dorothy White as Berber Girl
*
Denis Shaw as Grila
* Marie Hanson as Georgette
*
Rachel Gurney as Diane Blackton
*
Guido Lorraine as Abdul
*
André Maranne
André Maranne (14 May 1926 – 12 April 2021) was a French-English actor best known for playing roles in English-language films beginning in the mid-1950s.
Life and career
Born André Gaston Maillol in Toulouse, France, Maranne's best known r ...
as Police Officer
* Lorenza Colville as Bouala
*
Maureen Connell as Native Model
* Eric Lindsay as Senegalese Boy
* Auric Lorand as Sentry
*
Larry Taylor
Samuel Lawrence Taylor (June 26, 1942 – August 19, 2019) was an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967. Before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee L ...
as First Arab
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George Leech as Second Arab
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Andreas Malandrinos as Gardner
* Pat O'Meara as Guitarist
References
External links
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1956 films
1956 drama films
Films directed by Rudolph Maté
Films scored by Malcolm Arnold
Films set in Tangier
British drama films
Films shot at Shepperton Studios
Columbia Pictures films
1950s English-language films
1950s British films
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