Untamed (1955)

 

Director: Henry King.

Cast: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, Richard Egan, Rita Moreno, John Justin.

 

Love story between Power and Hayward during Boer trek through South Africa.  O.k. movie if you don't mind a story about the very racist Boer people who fought against the British to keep their slavery based society.

Many Afrikaners moved into the interior. There was selective migration with the more racist heading the farthest north, so that in South Africa the farther north you go the more virulent the brand of Afrikaner nationalism you will find. There is a "Deep North" like America's "Deep South."   (Source: Sparks, Allister. 1990 The Mind of South Africa. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. p. 41)

 

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