Segal and Andress become embroiled in an African adventure to recover the titular diamond.
Oddly inept adaptation of a Jules Verne novel with Segal and Andress apparently making a not very convincing or funny romantic comedy and everyone else a thriller. Welles is quite fun as a camp cockney villain that you really like with Hendry deadly serious as real bad guy. Despite quite a good climax this is otherwise poorly made with wobbly sets, lousy props, endless unnecessary back projection and half the film taken up with stock footage of animals to support the mood eg cheeky monkeys when it's funny (not often), big cats when there's peril etc
Overall probably best avoided.
Oddly inept adaptation of a Jules Verne novel with Segal and Andress apparently making a not very convincing or funny romantic comedy and everyone else a thriller. Welles is quite fun as a camp cockney villain that you really like with Hendry deadly serious as real bad guy. Despite quite a good climax this is otherwise poorly made with wobbly sets, lousy props, endless unnecessary back projection and half the film taken up with stock footage of animals to support the mood eg cheeky monkeys when it's funny (not often), big cats when there's peril etc
Overall probably best avoided.