Where was Sammy Going South filmed?
1963 film, directed by Alexander Mackendrick.
- Kenya
The story is set in Africa, about 1,589 miles (2,558 km) from where it was filmed.
Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed
- Set in
- Africa
- Filmed in
- Kenya
- Distance
- About 1,589 miles (2,558 km) between Africa and the nearest filming location.
About Sammy Going South
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- Released
- 1963
- Director
- Alexander Mackendrick
- Cast
- Edward G. Robinson
- Genre
- Adventure
The story
Ten-year-old English boy Sammy Hartland lives in Port Said, Egypt, with his parents.
When they are killed in a bombing during the Suez Crisis, the boy flees the city in the ensuing panic.
He sets out to reach his only living relative, an aunt who lives 5,000 miles to the south in Durban, South Africa - at the other end of the continent and in a different hemisphere.
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