Timbuktu (1959 film)

Timbuktu is a 1959 U.S. blackandwhite adventure film set in Timbuktu Africa but filmed in the Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park in Kanab, Utah. It was directed by Jacques Tourneur in 1958.

Wearing a slouch hat and bush jacket, Conway is armed with a Thompson sub machine gun and a wristwatch with an alarm engraved From Conway to Conway. He finds himself walking a razors edge between an antiFrench Tuareg leader John Dehner keen for Conways supply of weapons but keener to use his tarantulas on his prisoners, a moderate Imam Leonard Mudie wanting peace, the local French Foreign Legion commander George Dolenz, and the commanders attractive wife Yvonne de Carlo who Conway cannot keep away from.The film was originally meant to be shot on location in colour and widescreen based on an idea of Small and Frank Cavett with Stuart Heisler to direct. Later, there was a script done by Horace McCoy. At one stage, the film was going to be made by the team of Clarence Greene and Russell Rouse, who were making films for Small. ........

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