Wings Over Africa
Encyclopedia
Wings Over Africa is a 1936 British
adventure film
directed by Ladislao Vajda and starring Joan Gardner
, Ian Colin, James Harcourt
and James Carew
. A British expedition searches for a cache of buried diamonds in Africa.
Cinema of the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has had a major influence on modern cinema. The first moving pictures developed on celluloid film were made in Hyde Park, London in 1889 by William Friese Greene, a British inventor, who patented the process in 1890. It is generally regarded that the British film industry...
adventure film
Adventure film
Adventure films are a genre of film.Unlike pure, low-budget action films they often use their action scenes preferably to display and explore exotic locations in an energetic way....
directed by Ladislao Vajda and starring Joan Gardner
Joan Gardner
Joan Gardner was a British actress. She married Zoltán Korda and had a son, David.Joan was born in Chesham, Bucks, UK. She made her stage debut immediately on leaving school and by age 18 had achieved success there...
, Ian Colin, James Harcourt
James Harcourt
James Harcourt was a British character actor. He was born on 20 April 1873 in Headingley, Yorkshire.He started work as a cabinet maker, and drifted into amateur dramatics...
and James Carew
James Carew
James Carew was an American actor who appeared in many films, mainly in Britain. He was born in Goshen, Indiana in 1876 and began work as a clerk in a publishing firm...
. A British expedition searches for a cache of buried diamonds in Africa.
Cast
- Joan GardnerJoan GardnerJoan Gardner was a British actress. She married Zoltán Korda and had a son, David.Joan was born in Chesham, Bucks, UK. She made her stage debut immediately on leaving school and by age 18 had achieved success there...
- Carol Reade - Ian Colin - Tony Cooper
- James HarcourtJames HarcourtJames Harcourt was a British character actor. He was born on 20 April 1873 in Headingley, Yorkshire.He started work as a cabinet maker, and drifted into amateur dramatics...
- Wikins - James CarewJames CarewJames Carew was an American actor who appeared in many films, mainly in Britain. He was born in Goshen, Indiana in 1876 and began work as a clerk in a publishing firm...
- Norton - James Craven - John Trevor
- Alan NapierAlan NapierAlan William Napier-Clavering was an English actor, best known for portraying Alfred Pennyworth in the 1960s live-action Batman television series.-Early life and career:...
- Redfern - Phil ThomasPhil ThomasPhilip "Phil" Thomas was a Welsh rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1900s and '10s who at club level played rugby union for Tredegar RFC, and at representative level played rugby league for Great Britain, and Wales, and at club level for Leeds, and Hull Kingston Rovers,...
- Quincey - Charles OliverCharles Oliver (actor)Charles Oliver was a British film actor. He appeared in the Will Hay film Ask a Policeman as the local squire who oversees a smuggling empire.-Selected filmography:* Wings Over Africa * Midnight at Madame Tussaud's...
- Collins - Rufus Fennell - Saoud