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Coast of Skeletons
Coast of Skeletons is a 1965 adventure film, directed by Robert Lynn and starring Richard Todd and Dale Robertson. It is a sequel to the 1963 film Death Drums Along the River, and just as that film, it uses the characters from Edgar Wallace's 1911 novel Sanders of the River and Zoltán Korda's 1935 film based on the novel, but placed in a totally different story. Coast of Skeletons was released in Germany as Sanders und das Schiff des Todes/ Sanders and the Ship of Death. PlotFollowing independence, the unnamed British colony where Commissioner Harry Sanders has been working for many years sacks its British police force. So Sanders returns to London, where he soon finds work for an insurance company, which wants him to oversee a project to dredge for diamonds in the shallow waters off South West Africa. Sanders soon finds himself drawn into a web of insurance fraud, a secret hunt for World War II gold bullion, and a rivalrous love triangle between a flamboyant American diamond prospector, a former German U-boat commander in the employ of the American, and the German’s very young wife. Main cast
ProductionRichard Todd says he agreed to make the film if made more than he was in Death Drums Along the River and if the script - originally written by Towers - was rewritten by Tony Veitch.[1] He says financing for the film briefly fell over prior to production but that Towers found the money. Shooting took place in South Africa in the Durban area. Todd called the film "a straightforward cops-and-robbers story involving diamond smuggling and various other illegal activities; a journeyman subject that would gain interest from the locations where we would be filming."[2] References
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