At a British outpost in Kenya Colony in British East Africa during the early phases of World War II, a cast of characters happen to get stuck together in the midst of paranoia and isolation. The characters have heard word of a potential revolt by local Arab tribesmen, who have allegedly been stirred up and armed by enemy agents. Three of the characters working at the outpost are British soldiers, including the upper class major Major A.L. Coombes(George Sanders), Lt. Roddy Turner (Reginald Gardiner) and William Crawford(Bruce Cabot), a Canadian serving in the British Army who was stationed in the region before the war broke out. They are joined by Pallini, an Italian POW working as a cook who states he was "a history teacher at Milano (who)...taught too much" and was punished by being sent to Ethiopia. "(You) think I'm a coward....Where there is power there must be one master, and I know what that means to my people." Pallini is explicitly anti-fascist and makes it clear he would rather serve spaghetti to the British army than fight for Mussolini. He states that "I do not believe in fighting...I am an artist...to cook is my pleasure."
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| Henry Hathaway |
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