East of Sudan (1964)
You Live Every Adventure Known to Man ... When You Dare to Cross ...
Genre : Romance, Adventure, Drama
Runtime : 1H 25M
Director : Nathan H. Juran
Writer : Jud Kinberg
Synopsis
A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.
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