..."Duel in the Jungle"...1954...

[ParadiseRoad]

...David Farrar and Dana Andrews (1909–1992) stand over the slain carcass of a lion in a scene from “Duel in the Jungle”. The film was shot in Rhodesia...

 

[Texas Star]

Note the knobkerrie (war club) carried by the African on the right.

Then, there were two Rhodesias, Northern (now Zambia) and Southern (now Zimbabwe). Any clue as to which this was?

Looks like a pretty good lion there. Did wherever you found this say what the rifles were?
I'll try to learn more about the movie. I like safari films of that era.

 

[Rudi]

Can't make films like that now.

 

[panther]

Nowadays, they'd be cast as the bad guys for shooting a poor, endangered lion.

 

[Kurusu]

Note the knobkerrie (war club) carried by the African on the right.

Then, there were two Rhodesias, Northern (now Zambia) and Southern (now Zimbabwe). Any clue as to which this was?

Looks like a pretty good lion there. Did wherever you found this say what the rifles were?
I'll try to learn more about the movie. I like safari films of that era.

It's supposed to be Nothern Rodhesia.

 

[Alpo]

Note the knobkerrie (war club) carried by the African on the right.

Fourth man from the left - the guy standing in front of the man wearing the leopard-skin skivvies - also has one.

 

[Warren Sear]

Nowadays, they'd be cast as the bad guys for shooting a poor, endangered lion.

Hahahahaa! Remember poor Cecil from a few years ago?

 

[Texas Star]

Found a preview of the movie. It was indeed made in N. Rhodesia, where famed novelist Wilbur Smith was born. But they also credited South African authorities, so may have filmed some there, too.

BTW, Smith now lives near Cape Town. You can find interviews with him on YouTube.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Can't make films like that now.

Only if you bore the lion to death with ballet or Oprah.

 

[soFlaNative]

I've read Smith and learned the short spear held by Farrar and others is the assegai.
Vicious looking thing with blades of varying lengths the Zulu were not men until killing a lion with the weapon.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Good photos for sure, Did not know he was a hunter, Dana Andrews was great movie star

 

[Texas Star]

You can see David Farrar in another good safari movie, mainly a sort of remake of, King Solomon's Mines. Called, Watusi, it's now on DVD.

I didn't know that a Zulu had to spear a lion to become a man. That sounds like the Masai, a tribe far to the north.

The Zulu called the short stabbing spear an iklwa, for the sound it made when withdrawn from an enemy.

See, The Washing of the Spears by Donald R. Morris for a fine read on the Zulu.

I don't know which tribes were in Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia. Southern R. was dominated by the Matabele, an offshoot of the Zulu who trekked north after a Zulu civil war.

 

[ParadiseRoad]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGjPQbN9Stw[/ame]

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I generally pride myself on my knowledge of history, but my knowledge of Sub Saharan African history can be seen in the movies Zulu and Zulu Dawn and Winston Churchill's memoirs.

 

[Texas Star]

I generally pride myself on my knowledge of history, but my knowledge of Sub Saharan African history can be seen in the movies Zulu and Zulu Dawn and Winston Churchill's memoirs.

You can find Churchill's account of his using a Mauser pistol in battle in, "My Early Life", 1930.

Read Robert C. Ruark's books like, Something of Value and Uhuru.

Find and read, Man-Hunt in Kenya, by Inspector Ian Henderson, GM. He, by gum, EARNED that George Medal.

I can't comment in detail here, but you'll find them very informative. Also read books by Wilbur Smith set in that area in historical times. Since 1994, he has written only historically set books about Africa. I probably can't say here why I think this is. But I think you'll like his books. You can find interviews with him on YouTube, inc. one from his home near Cape Town. That was in a SABC show called Top Billing, which profiles many famous South Africans.