Trader Horn is a 1973 Metrocolor film directed by Reza Badiyi and starring Rod Taylor as the African adventurer Alfred Aloysius Horn. It is a remake (or perhaps more accurately a reboot) of the 1931 film, also released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Neither picture is faithful to the original memoirs of Horn, who was 53 when World War I began.

Plot During World War I, Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn leads an expedition in search of a platinum mine in an unexplored region of Africa. The trio encounter warring natives, rhinos and lions. They travel through jungle, swamps, and desert. They are pursued by German soldiers wanting the platinum for the war effort and by a British officer hunting Horn as a traitor.

Cast Rod Taylor (VF : Jean Claude Michel) as Alfred Aloysius "Trader" Horn Anne Heywood as Nicole Mercer Jean Sorel as Emil DuMond Don Knight as Colonel Sinclair Ed Bernard as Apague Stack Pierce as Malugi Erik Holland as Lt. Medford Robert Miller Driscoll as Alfredo Solomon Karriem as Red Sun Ji-Tu Cumbuka as Orange Stripe Willie Harris as Blue Star Caro Kenyatta as Umbopa Oliver Givens as Dancer Curt Lowens as Schmidt John Siegfried as German Officer

Production The movie was originally announced as a big budget production for MGM-EMI.

The film was primarily shot on the backlot at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in Culver City, California. The script, set during the First World War, ignores the plot of the largely fictitious 1931 film about the discovery of a white jungle queen. The new story is written to use colourised footage from the MGM films King Solomon's Mines (1950), and Mogambo (1953).Stephen Vagg, Rod Taylor: An Aussie in Hollywood, Bear Manor Media 2010 p 177. Rod Taylor felt, with the end of the Vietnam War, the time was right for old-fashioned hero movies to make a comeback.Trader Horn at Rod Taylor Site.com

Rod Taylor performed his own stunt riding on a zebra in the picture, actually taming the animal in the process.

See also List of American films of 1973

References

External links

Trader Horn at New York Times Trader Horn at the Rod Taylor Site