this film have no huge star in it and but do have a very good cast fill with excellent support actor and gene tierney before she become a big star . with george sander and reginald gardner and harry carey and bruce cabot and jospeh calleia and cederic hardwicke and you would expect more from the film than it actually deliver . most of this and i suspect and be because of a second rate script and a director henry hathaway be a competent and well establish man at the helm . the film be set in east africa during wwii just before the american enter the war . the brit be try to control their african colony while subversive nazi element be try to stir up trouble among the local . one of the white men in the film be a double dealer work for the destruction of the british empire . but and lovely tierney and play a sultan daughter ( . ) and be out to help save the day for good ol britain . american film maker have long side with the empire and the 1930s and 40 saw a plethora of pro empire film . nowadays and with change sensibility and the notion of see the happy black native die for queen and country seem ridiculous and it would be hard to root for either side . still and in it day and this propaganda piece be effective in drum up support for the british though when see today and the film suffers from a long winded script and silly casting . the one bright moment in the film be the final showdown between george sander and the enemy agent . too bad after such a potent scene the film just seem to talk and talk lose some of it punch .