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Tamango (1958)
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24 January 1958 (France)
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A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave...
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Dorothy Dandrige:Mérimée again.
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(Credited cast) | Dorothy Dandridge | ... | Aiché, Reiker's mistress |
 | Curd Jürgens | ... | Captain John Reinker |
| Jean Servais | ... | Doctor Corot |
| Alex Cressan | ... | Tamango |
| Roger Hanin | ... | 1st Mate Bebe |
| Guy Mairesse | ... | Werner |
| Clément Harari | ... | Cook |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Doudou Babet | ... | Chadi |
| Habib Benglia | ... | Le chef noir |
| Karamoko Cisse | (as Cissé Karamako) | |
| S. Damiz | ||
| Eboué | ||
| Hassane Fall | ||
| René Hell | ||
| Samuel M'Bondi | ||
| Abesakar Samba | ||
| Douta Seck | ||
| Bachir Touré | ... | Zaru |
| Julien Verdier | ... | Fernando |
| B. Vitalien | ||
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La rivolta dell'esperanza (Italy)
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USA:98 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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At initial release, depiction of interracial romance caused the film to be banned in the United States and in the French colonies.
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Referenced in To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
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The precedent user is right:it's based on a famous short story from Prosper Mérimée.It's strange that the writer's name does not appear in the credits on the IMDb page.Dorothy Dandrige had already been in "Carmen Jones " ,a Bizet opera based on another famous short story by...Prosper Mérimée.
"Tamango" was a failure when it was released and during the sixties,John Berry ,who had made a film noir chef d'oeuvre in the fifties ,"He ran all the way" was relegated to direct French pop star Johnny Hallyday in a forgotten turkey "A Tout Casser" .
"Tamango" is a well-made movie but it is icily impersonal.Aisha's character's evolution is predictable.On the other hand ,there's a good use of the wide screen (cinemascope ) particularly effective when it comes to depict the hold where the slaves cram.The documentary side is the most successful,and "Tamango" can be looked upon as the granddaddy of the "Roots " series in the seventies.Tamango himself is close to Kunta in that 1977 Marvin Chomsky's work.