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Africa Express (film)

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Africa Express
Directed byMichele Lupo[1]
Written byMario Amendola
Bruno Corbucci
Gabriele Martin[1]
Produced byTritone Filmindustria (Roma)[1]
Deutsche Fox Film[1]
Salvatore Alabiso
StarringGiuliano Gemma
Ursula Andress
Jack Palance[1]
CinematographyRoberto Gerardi[1]
Edited byEugenio Alabiso[1]
Music byGuido & Maurizio De Angelis[1]
Distributed byCidif[1]
Release date
  • 1975 (1975)
Running time
95 min.[1]
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Africa Express is a 1975 Italian adventure film starring Ursula Andress, Giuliano Gemma, and Jack Palance that was filmed in Rhodesia. A sequel Safari Express with the same leads followed a year later.

Plot

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John Baxter is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimpanzee and one dream: to save enough money to buy a gas station in Detroit. Madeleine Cooper is the lady of mystery he runs into as she flees from Hunter [2]

Cast

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Reception

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Italian film critic Marco Giusti calls the film a "cute little movie" (Italian: "filmetto carino"), the best being Ursula Andress dressed as dirty sister.[1]

Bibliography

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  • Giusti, Marco (1999). dizionario dei film italiani STRACULT [sic]. Cles: Sterling & Kupfer. ISBN 88-200-2919-7.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Giusti 1999, p. 6.
  2. ^ Africa Express, retrieved 2023-03-17
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