Simba (1955 film)

Simba
Original film poster
Directed byBrian Desmond Hurst
Written byJohn Baines
Robin Estridge
Anthony Perry (story)
Produced byPeter De Sarigny
StarringDirk Bogarde
Virginia McKenna
Donald Sinden
CinematographyGeoffrey Unsworth
Edited byMichael Gordon
Music byFrancis Chagrin
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • 19 January 1955 (1955-01-19)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Simba is a 1955 British war drama film [1] directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, and starring Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Virginia McKenna, and Basil Sydney.[2] The screenplay concerns a British family living in East Africa, who become embroiled in the Mau Mau Uprising.[3]

  1. ^ Webster, Wendy (2001). ""There'll Always Be an England": Representations of Colonial Wars and Immigration, 1948-1968". Journal of British Studies. 40 (4): 557–584. doi:10.1086/386267. JSTOR 3070747. S2CID 159611370 – via JSTOR.
  2. ^ "Simba (1955), BFI Film Forever.
  3. ^ Susan Lisa Carruthers. "PROPAGANDA, PUBLICITY AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE : THE PRESENTATION OF TERRORISM IN BRITAIN 1944-60" (PDF). Etheses.whiterose.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 November 2021.