Snake-oil salesman and diamond smuggler Robert Mitchum runs into trouble with irate African villagers; he's cared for by the daughter of a missionary reverend who is engaged to the district commissioner, who in turn has ordered the natives off the land due to an impending flood despite their refusal to vacate without their animals. Sloppy second-biller certainly doesn't provide much in the way of an acting showcase, though Mitchum and Carroll Baker manage a comfortable repartee. Adaptation of Max Catto's book waffles uncertainly between comedy, romance and adventure, this due to Ronald Neame's surprisingly lax direction. Film is benign enough, though that's hardly complimentary. *1/2 from ****
Review of Mister Moses
