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The film was a UK production ... one of Harry Alan Towers 'epics'. It was also Steve Cochrane's last film. He died in mysterious circumstances a few months after its completion. I have been after this for ages too.
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08-05-09 05:32 PM #1Senior Member Country:
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Hi,
I'm looking for a 1965 thriller/adventure movie called MOZAMBIQUE - which starred Steve Cochran and Hildegard Knef. Ex film censor John Trevellyan makes reference to it his autobiography, with its violence proving problematic for the censors at the time. Unfortunately, the film (a co British/German feature judging from its credits) seems to have vanished from the face of the earth.
Anyone out there got a copy they'd care to trade?
Cheers
Stephen Laws
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08-05-09 05:40 PM #2Super Moderator Country:
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08-05-09 05:43 PM #3Senior Member Country:
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It's not much help but I remember watching this in the mid-80s on ITV...
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08-05-09 05:46 PM #4Super Moderator Country:
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name='dremble wedge']It's not much help but I remember watching this in the mid-80s on ITV...
That's when I first saw it. It's a pretty decent B picture with some good location filming.
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08-05-09 06:13 PM #5Senior Member Country:
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Albert Finney to Frank Finlay in Gumshoe: "They do a lot of gardening in Mozambique?"
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08-05-09 07:06 PM #6Senior Member Country:
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I have a little anecdote about this film concerning the now long gone Alhambra cinema in Stoke-on-Trent and the man who owned and ran the cinema, the late Levison Myatt. He booked Mozambique for the main feature of the Sunday show on August 30th, 1970 and he was sat in his office on the Saturday reading the television listings pages in the local Evening Sentinel (as it was then) newspaper and was amazed to find that the Sunday night film on midlands ITV was none other than Steve Cochran and Hildegarde Neff in Mozambique!
He phoned the renters and played hell with them for allowing him to book the film when it had already been booked for television on the same evening. But it was too late to do anything about it. There wasn’t much of an audience for Mozambique in the Alhambra that Sunday evening…they were all at home watching it on television!
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08-05-09 07:17 PM #7Super Moderator Country:
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name='darrenburnfan'] There wasn’t much of an audience for Mozambique in the Alhambra that Sunday evening…they were all at home watching it on television!
... oops.
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11-05-09 12:51 PM #8Member Country:
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Mozambique played as second feature to the Beatles film Help! in August 1965 at my old local Odeon in Grimsby. I assumed that was the double bill circulating the country. It would have been stupid to not allow under sixteens into a Beatles' film, so Mozambique must surely have had a 'U' certificate. Much cut, then!
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11-05-09 01:09 PM #9Senior Member Country:
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You're right, according to the BBFC website, it was passed with cuts as a "U" certificate and it did go out on general release in 1965 as the supporting film to Help!
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16-10-11 12:34 AM #10Member Country:
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Mozambique was on the Movies4Men channel on Saturday afternoon and was apparently transmitted in a correct scope print. I don't know if it was cut or not. A friend recorded it and is sending it on to me. I'll report back - if anyone is still interested.
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16-10-11 12:40 PM #11Member Country:
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Thank you for that information. I'm interested!
Originally Posted by Shelley Court
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16-10-11 05:47 PM #12Senior Member Country:
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Coast of Skeletons, another Africa -set Harry Alan Towers production from a year earlier, with Richard Todd and Derek Nimmo(!) is on the same channel this afternoon - both bought by Movies4Men in the same package, no doubt.
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30-10-11 06:06 AM #13Member Country:
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Mozambique is indeed in scope and the running time suggests it is uncut. Haven't got around to actually watching it. So much to watch. It will be on again.
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31-10-11 10:44 PM #14Senior Member Country:
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That's probably the version that has appeared on certain torrent sites recently. Looks like a decent print. Originally Posted by Shelley Court
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22-11-11 04:45 PM #15Senior Member Country:
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Hi Shelly Court -
I started the thread way back when and would be very interested in a copy of MOZAMBIQUE. Could you contact me with a view to a trade? I'd be very grateful (stephenlaws13@aol.com)
Cheers
Stephen Laws
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10-12-11 06:56 PM #16Senior Member Country:
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On FRIDAY 16th December on Movies4Men2
17:00 to 19.00
Mozambique (1965 UK/Germany)
Action and adventure in the depths of wildest Africa.
1965
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