This has all the familiar tropes as any other safari film (compare with Stewart Granger's version of King Solomon's Mines 6 years previously), but also works in contemporary history, as the Mau Mau uprising was a real event in Kenyan history. Obviously this was before CGI, so the animal effects are crude, but the 1950's colors are vibrant, and they featured a lot of different firearms probably not often seen on a real safari, like the Thompson, a pump action shotgun, and a Winchester 1892.
