The Dark of the Sun was released in Malaysia as The Merceneries. It was one shocking movie when I saw it in Form 4. Unused to violence, you can feel your skin creep at the helplessness of people who are victimised by wild rebels and they virtually chop you up with machetes or skewer you to death. Biting fear!The place-the Belgium Congo. The time-in the 60s when anarchy prevailed. Rod Taylor (Curry) and Jim Brown braved themselves as paid mercenaries into the Congo to save missionaries as well as collect US$50 million in diamonds. Continues to be suspenseful in spite of it being filmed in 1968. Yvette Mimieux provided the female attraction.
Watchable film even by today's standards. The closest to rival it was Hotel Rwanda.
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