I know little about South African cinema - mostly Jamie Uys and various films shot there in the 70s. This one has a script by Wilbur Smith though not based on one of his novels. He did use part of it for A Time to Kill because like that this is about a dying man determined to kill a lion. He's accompanied by a woman only not his daughter bu doctor Karen Spies. Jack Hawkins is the guy, only a short time from death, with his voice dubbed. He's playing a dying man so that's moving.
Most of it is chats with Hawkins and Spies. Spies is pretty but her role is "you shouldn't be doing this". There's another guy who is a guide who I expected to have a romance or die but he doesn't. There's no development. No twists.
It's novel. Just a little dull.
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