MOVIE · 1935
Sanders of the River
ActionAdventureDrama98 min
In colonial Nigeria in the 1930s, a British District Officer (Leslie Banks) governs his territory with strict authority while trying to shut down gun-runners and slavers working the river. Paul Robeson is the local chief who aids him, and Nina Mae McKinney is among the film’s Nigerian leads. River patrols, conflicts among local rulers, and confrontations over control shape the plot, with the action framed from the perspective of British colonial administration.
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