Simba (1955) - Dirk Bogarde

aka - Mark of MAU MAU (I955)
IMDb:6.5 -Stars - Dirk Bogarde, Donald Sinden, Virginia McKenna Basil Sydney
A European family in East Africa finds itself caught up in an uprising by local black Africans against their white colonial masters. Based upon the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya in the early 1950's.
A young Englishman(Dirk Bogarde) arrives in Kenya to visit his older brother on his farm when he finds the latter has just been brutally murdered by the Mau-Mau. He decides to stay on the farm and fight the rebels with all his energy. He begins to fall in love with the daughter of another local white settler, and while she loves him she disapproves of his hatred of blacks.

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[theuofc]

Thanks so much for sharing these Bogarde films. It takes time and energy to upload them, but please know that they are much appreciated! Don't let the usual haranguing get you down. Carry on!

[coachBswife]

@theuofc Thanks for the kind words of support and encouragement. Luckily, most of the classic film community viewing these films are terrific, but I compare a very small group of the users to a bird, they drop their crap(comments) and fly away again.

[coachBswife]

Please keep the discussions civil. I know as adults we are capable of holding a discussion without attacking one another. No matter how passionately one feels on this topic, please consider others before you reply. I had to remove one comment and hope it was the last. Thank you very much, kb

[coachBswife]

@patrice6016 The Brits are not alone in suppressing those they have occupied. After watching this film, I decided to learn more about the real history of the uprising, it was not hard to find good reliable material, you may like to do the same.

[djuma77]

A very good movie! Many thanks for all your great postings. Dirk Bogarde was such a fine actor.

[coachBswife]

@djuma77 Your welcome. I am glad you are enjoying them. I was just trying to upload those that I had not located on YouTube. I have a few more to come.

[Grifiki]

"Just because it was under British rule, does not mean they were all Brit's. I should know. Yes some of those natives were treated like slaves, but there was Italians, Germans, besides British and any others. Finally Kenyatta (who was blaimed for some ot the troubles) became there first President in 1963. in January 1964 five thousand Arabs were killed in Zanzibar alone, but not by the whites."

[Grifiki]

"I was stationed in Kenya, 1959-1961."

[howiemwas1]

plymouthpilot before you can say that brits were out to prevent slaughtering, bring peace and security you need to study real history, not cover up history by the brits to hide their evil in africa. If i told you the history of what brits did in my country Kenya you would realise that your comments here are a slap to the collective intelligence of every African including me. Is carrying slaves from my country what u call expanding trade? raping women, murdering men...

[kbbels]

@babysparrow17 Please post these type of statements on your own uploads or your channel Even if you were quoting part of the movie I would find this in poor taste and offensive to others. After reviewing your channel, and other YouTube post you have made, its clear how you feel. Your free to have your opinions, and you stated in another post, you long for the days when it was not politically incorrect to speak your beliefs, you can just not here. (coachBswife)

[Plymouthpilot]

Most of the efforts of we British in the colonies was in preventing the various factions and tribes slaughtering each other. Our aim was to bring peace and security to the majority of the population while at the same time expanding our trade.

[patrice6016]

A very biased movie, even the educated black doctor is not allowed to say anything that criticizes the the colonialists even though he can see that the Mau Mau and his people have legitimate concerns. Armed conflict arose because of the Brits suppression of Africans in their own land and treating them as sub human,how else were they supposed to rebel?