Sammy Going South

Sammy Going South (1963)

After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives. On the way he meets a variety of different people who help or hinder his journey - including an ageing diamond smuggler.

Data de estreia
1963-03-18
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (17)
Duração
2 h 8 min
Géneros
Aventura
Realizador
Alexander Mackendrick

Elenco

Curiosidades

  • Filmado em: Quénia

Sammy Going South is a 1963 British adventure film directed by Alexander Mackendrick, photographed by Erwin Hillier and starring Edward G. Robinson, Fergus McClelland and Constance Cummings.

Production

The film was based on a 1961 novel by W.H. Canaway.

Film rights were purchased by Bryanston Films, a company run by Michael Balcon. He hired Alexander Mackendrick to direct (the two men had worked together at Ealing). Mackendrick had not made a film since The Sweet Smell of Success.

The film had a budget of £385,000 with £269,500 being provided by Bryanston-Seven Arts, partnership between Bryanston and Seven Arts. There was additional investment from Enterprises (a South African company) and the US arm of Seven Arts

of £57,750 each. Bryanston Seven Arts intended to make three films: Sammy Going South, The World of Sammy Lee and Tom Jones. It wound up only making the first two.

Fergus McClelland was an eleven years old pupil at Holland Park Comprehensive School in London in March 1962 when he was chosen from hundreds of other boys to play Sammy. According to the actor Donald Sinden, (who had worked for the film's executive producer Sir Michael Balcon at Ealing Studios when he made The Cruel Sea) his youngest son, Marc Sinden, then aged eight, was originally offered the part of Sammy, but he turned the offer down on his…

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