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Subject: RE: Movie title??
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:18:35 +0000
From: Armstrong,Helenjane <[log in to unmask]>
To: Maps, Air Photo, GIS Forum - Map Librarianship <[log in to unmask]>

Per the Movie of mapping Africa:  There is a 1956 movie titled Congo
Crossing which sounds like a candidate but it is in color and the
description only mentions the true border and not a river or mine.
although the mine might be the feature in which Rittner is keenly
interested.  Sorry I only barely remember the movie and only about the
land survey and little about a map.
Wikipedia describes the plot as:

"Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is
controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner (Tonio Selwart).
The latest plane from Europe carries Louise Whitman (Virginia Mayo),
(fleeing a French murder charge), and Mannering (Raymond Bailey), who
pays resident hit man O'Connell (Michael Pate) to kill her. Through a
chain of circumstances Louise, O'Connell, and heroic surveyor David Carr
(George Nader) end up alone in the jungle on Carr's mission to determine
the true border of Congotanga... in which Rittner is keenly interested.



HelenJane Armstrong PhD
Map Librarian/Professor Emeritus
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
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