Coast Of Skeletons (1964)

An insurance investigator (Richard Todd) working out of London but who has experience in Africa is sent to South West Africa to oversee a project by a shady American (Dale Robertson) who is dredging for diamonds in shallow waters. Very loosely based on (or should I say inspired by) SANDERS OF THE RIVER by Edgar Wallace and directed by Robert Lynn. This pulp action-adventure movie benefits from the South African and Namibian locations shot in Techniscope by Stephen Dade (ZULU). There's not much you can say about a movie like this. It's serviceable but predictable, the kind of film you can only pay half attention to yet still follow. Its leading men (Todd and Robertson) had seen better days but still enough of a "name" for the international market. With Marianne Koch, Heinz Drache, Elga Andersen, Derek Nimmo and George Leech.