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Sammy Going South (retitled A Boy Ten Feet Tall for its later US release) is a 1963 British adventure film directed by Alexander Mackendrick, photographed by Erwin Hillier and starring Edward G. Robinson, Fergus McClelland and Constance Cummings. Sammy Going South was based on a 1961 novel by W. H. Canaway and adapted for the screen by Denis ...
A young boy living in Port Said, Egypt, narrowly escapes a bomb blast that destroys the apartment block where he lives. After discovering that both his parents were killed in the explosion, he decides to travel (on foot) to Durban, South Africa, to be with his only living relative, an aunt.
Jul 22, 2021 · Sammy Going South is a magnificent story about a young boy who loses his parents in the Suez action of 1956, and sets out to find his aunt - who lives in Durban at the other end of the continent!.
After he is orphaned by an air raid on Port Said during the Suez Crisis, a young boy attempts to go by himself from the Suez Canal to Durban in South Africa where his nearest relative, Aunt Jane, lives.
An orphan (Fergus McClelland) leaves Egypt with a toy compass to find his aunt in Durban, South Africa, about 5,000 miles south.
Sammy Going South also known as A Boy Ten Feet Tall is a 1963 British South African adventure movie directed by Alexander Mackendrick and is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by W. H. Canaway. It stars Edward G. Robinson, Constance Cummings, Harry H. Corbett, Paul Stassino, Zia Mohyeddin, Zena Walker, Jack Gwillim, Glyn Owen and was ...
Based on a 1961 novel by W.H. Canaway, and filmed over 1962, Sammy Going South narrates the adventures of a boy orphaned during the Suez crisis and surveys his journey through various parts of Britain’s dissolving African Empire in the months that follow.
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