| Tanganyika | |
| Director: | Andre de Toth |
| Producer: | Albert J. Cohen |
| Screenplay: | William Sackheim Richard Alan Simmons |
| Story: | William R. Cox |
| Starring: | Van Heflin Ruth Roman Howard Duff |
| Music: | Joseph Gershenson |
| Editing: | Al Clark, |
| Studio: | Universal International Pictures |
| Distributor: | Universal International Pictures |
| Runtime: | 81 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Gross: | $1.3 million[1] |
| Language: | English |
Tanganyika is a 1954 American Technicolor action adventure film directed by Andre de Toth and starring Van Heflin, Ruth Roman and Howard Duff.[2] [3] It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
"Territory of East Africa 1903". In the British colonial region adjoining German East Africa (a portion of which was referenced as Tanganyika), tough American colonist John Gale is leading a safari to bring in escaped murderer Abel McCracken, who is stirring up the (fictional) Nukumbi tribe and endangering Gale's holdings.[4]
En route, he picks up four survivors of a Nukumbi raid: Dan Harder, former teacher Peggy, and the two orphaned children of her brother who was killed in the raid. Harder is secretly McCracken's brother, while Gale's motives however have nothing to do with justice or even the charms of Peggy; he hopes to stake a claim on a valuable piece of land. The Nukumbi are lying in wait and, eventually, Gale and McCracken meet in man-to-man combat.[5]