Sammy Going South

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.

Tenyearold English boy Sammy Hartland Fergus McClelland lives in Port Said, Egypt, with his parents. When they are killed in a bombing during the Suez Crisis, the boy flees the city in the ensuing panic. He sets out to reach his only living relative, an aunt who lives 5000 miles to the south in Durban, South Africa at the other end of the continent and in a different hemisphere. Along his journey Sammy encounters a colourful array of characters. His first guide is an Arab peddler who dies in a freak accident.Sammy is then rescued by wealthy tourist Gloria van Imhoff Constance Cummings. When she wants to return him to Port Said, Sammy runs off and encounters a gruff old hunterdiamond smuggler, Cocky Wainwright Edward G. Robinson, whose life is subsequently saved by the boy. When the police search for Sammy, they arrest the old man, who has been a fugitive for years. After Sammy is finally united with his Aunt Jane Zena Walker, he learns that the old smuggler left him his entire fortune. ........

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