What makes it different from others?

Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

So much of this film leaves a bad taste in the mouth.What was a very complex situation is treated rather like a western with the cavalry coming to the rescue in the nick of time.Then there is the great white hunter slaughtering everything in his path.The film was dated when it was made and feels more embarrassingly so nowMature gives his usual wooden performance and Culver is surprisingly bad.

SAFARI is a stock Hollywood adventure film set and made in Africa. The backdrop of the story is an interesting one that takes in the Mau Mau Uprising and includes a surprisingly vicious and adult opening sequence which works in the film's favour and is in actuality the best part of the movie: vivid, shocking, and a real hammer blow to the stomach.After this point the film goes down a gear and provides fitfully exciting viewing, although not without the problems associated with the big bucks productions of this era. One of these is Victor Mature as the heroic lead; his performance is entirely old-fashioned here and he looks like he's come straight from the 1940s. Janet Leigh is better as the love interest and disrobes for a couple of bathing scenes which would have been racy for the time.SAFARI also boasts the underrated Bermudan character actor Earl Cameron (SAPPHIRE) as the chief antagonist and very good he is too. The action bits are handled well and inevitably the scenery is a star in itself. A shame, then, that the overall experience is marred by footage of African creatures being shot which looks surprisingly realistic and makes me wonder if it was indeed done for real.

I found this movie to be wonderful and not what I totally expected. I was looking for a movie about animals and was blessed with a film that fed all my senses. The scenery was breathtaking and clear. You even got an unexpected education from watching it. The actors were talented and did not take away from the scenery. It was a great blending of talent and location. This is not a documentary about animals but it could be used as a wonderful teaching tool on types of animals and how people relate to them. The movie had suspense and laughter throughout. even though was based on a time when women had a place to be and it was not in the bush country. I recommend this movie as a family movie.

"In the jungle, the quiet jungle, the lion sleeps tonight." That was a rock 'n' roll hit in the late 1950s. Where did an American recording group get the idea to do such a single? From this movie, in which the African characters, while marching on safari, sing it - an authentic African folk song that easily translated to a rhythm 'n' blues beat. Here is a fine example of what they used to call a 'program picture' - not a B movie in the early-indie junk-movie sense, or an A studio production either. Just before TV ruled, the major studios used to make minor films (though not B movies, mind you - something beyond that but below a B feature) and called them programmers. That way, they could make use of the actors, writers, directors, etc. who were on a regular payroll, a concept that would die early during the next decade. After all, if you were going to pay all of those people a weekly salary, might as well knock out modest movies that, when you think about it, cost them little but the price of raw film stock. They could be marketed on double bills, then sent over to the Drive-Ins, and finally put into a package that went to local TV channels in those days before the networks got hooked on full-length films (fall of 61). So here were Victor Mature and Janet Leigh as an older man and younger woman who find themselves together on a safari that her father arranges. Mature has ulterior motives - his family was destroyed in a mau-mau attacks some years earlier and he wants revenge, thinking this may be the way to get it. The mau-mau attacks are very well staged by Terence Young, who would go on to do several Bond films. Crisp color and a strong soundtrack qualify this as precisely what it was meant to be - far from a memorable movie, but a time killer that doesn't leave you feeling that you've wasted you're time when it's over.