Coast of Skeletons

Coast of Skeletons
Coast of Skeletons
	US poster from 1965
Directed by	Robert Lynn
Screenplay by	Anthony Scott Veitch
Story by	Harry Alan Towers
Based on	Sanders of the River; by Edgar Wallace
Produced by	Harry Alan Towers
Starring	Richard Todd; Dale Robertson; Heinz Drache; Marianne Koch
Cinematography	Stephen Dade
Edited by	John Trumper
Music by	Christopher Whelen
Production; companies	Towers of London Films; S.A. Film Studios
Distributed by	Towers of London
Release dates	19 March 1965 (South Africa); 23 August 1965 (UK);
Running time	91 min.
Countries	United Kingdom; South Africa; West Germany
Language	English

Coast of Skeletons is a 1965 adventure film, directed by Robert Lynn and starring Richard Todd and Dale Robertson. It is a sequel to the 1963 film Death Drums Along the River, and just as that film, it uses the characters from Edgar Wallace's 1911 novel Sanders of the River and Zoltán Korda's 1935 film based on the novel, but placed in a totally different story. Coast of Skeletons was released in Germany as Sanders und das Schiff des Todes/ Sanders and the Ship of Death.

Plot

Following independence, the unnamed British colony where Commissioner Harry Sanders has been working for many years sacks its British police force. So Sanders returns to London, where he soon finds work for an insurance company, which wants him to oversee a project to dredge for diamonds in the shallow waters off South West Africa.

Sanders soon finds himself drawn into a web of insurance fraud, a secret hunt for World War II gold bullion, and a rivalrous love triangle between a flamboyant American diamond prospector, a former German U-boat commander in the employ of the American, and the German’s very young wife.

Main cast

Richard Todd as Commissioner Harry Sanders
Dale Robertson as A.J. Magnus
Heinz Drache as Janny von Koltze
Marianne Koch as Helga
Elga Andersen as Elisabeth von Koltze
Derek Nimmo as Tom Hamilton
Gabriel Bayman as Charlie Singer
George Leech as Carlo Seton
Gordon Mulholland as Mr. Spyker
Josh du Toit as Hajo Petersen
Dietmar Schönherr as Piet van Houten

External links

Coast of Skeletons at the British Film Institute^{[better source needed]}
Coast of Skeletons at the British Board of Film Classification
Coast of Skeletons at IMDb
Coast of Skeletons at the TCM Movie Database

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