Trader Horn (1973)

Trader Horn is a 1973 film starring Rod Taylor as the African adventurer Trader Horn, whose life had been previously dramatised in a 1931 film.

The film was shot on the MGM backlot in Los Angeles, and ignores the plot of the 1931 film about the discovery of a white jungle queen.
The new story is written to use stock footage from King Solomon's Mines (1950), and Mogambo (1953).
Rod Taylor felt, with the end of the Vietnam War, the time was right for old fashioned hero movies to make a come back.




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The anti-hero image was stretched as far as it could go. I think people now want to see a good guy win out over the bad guys through intelligence, courage and strength -- the traditional makeup of hero types.

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— Rod Taylor

Synopsis

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.

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