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Timbuktu

5.4

110

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Original title

Timbuktu

Year

1959

Running time

91 min.

Country

United States

Director

Jacques Tourneur

Screenwriter

Paul Dudley, Anthony Veiller

Cast

Music

Gerald Fried

Cinematography

Maury Gertsman (B&W)

Producer

Imperial Pictures. Producer: Edward Small. Distributor: United Artists, ABC

Genre

Adventure | 1940s

Synopsis

In 1940 Col. Dufort arrives in Timbuktu with his wife to take over the French garrison, threatened by a Tuareg uprising supposedly inspired by Mohamet Adjani. Col. and Mme. Dufort push on to Bou Djebeha in company with an American gunrunner named Mike Conway who soon engages the Colonel's wife in a forbidden romance. At Bou Djebeha Conway learns that the holy man has been kidnapped by an evil Emir who is the true force behind the rebellion. Complications and dangers ensue as Conway and the Colonel try to get the holy man back to Timbuktu so that he can speak out against the rebellion.

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Timbuktu

1959

Jacques Tourneur

5.4

(110)