By Richard Harland Smith
Rhino!
Brief Synopsis
A scientist is forced to join forces with an unscrupulous African hunter.
Cast & Crew
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Ivan Tors
Director
Harry Guardino
Alec Burnett
Shirley Eaton
Edith Arleigh
Robert Culp
Dr. Jim Hanlon
Harry Mekela
Jopo
George Lane
Haragay
Film Details
Genre
Adventure
Action
Release Date
Jan
1964
Premiere Information
San Francisco opening: 20 May 1964
Production Company
Ivan Tors Films
Distribution Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 31m
Sound
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Color
Color (Metrocolor)
Synopsis
Dr. Jim Hanlon, devoted to saving African animals from extinction, unknowingly hires poacher Alec Burnett as his guide in seeking to capture two white rhinos to help propagate the rare species. Burnett, who has also been hired by a black marketeer to capture the animals, is certain that his task will be simplified by Hanlon's tranquilizer guns, and he steals the zoologist's car and equipment. Burnett's girl friend, nurse Edith Arleigh, is anxious to reform him and divulges his hiding place. The two men clash, but Burnett changes his attitude when he is bitten by a cobra and Hanlon saves his life. Later, the two rhinos are captured, and the former enemies decide to join forces in animal research.
Director
Ivan Tors
Director
Cast
Harry Guardino
Alec Burnett
Shirley Eaton
Edith Arleigh
Robert Culp
Dr. Jim Hanlon
Harry Mekela
Jopo
George Lane
Haragay
Crew
Warren Adams
Film Editor
Art Arthur
Associate Producer
Art Arthur
Story
Art Arthur
Screenwriter
Mel Bledsoe
Prod Supervisor
Lamar Boren
Director of Photography
Ben Chapman
Producer
Keith S., (m.d.) Ditman
Psychopharmacology adv
Joseph Gannon
Assistant to the prod
Natal Parks Game & Fish Preservation Board
Coöp
Sven Persson
Associate Producer
Sven Persson
Director of Photography
Ian Player
Animal immobilization adv
Lalo Schifrin
Music comp & Conductor
Fred Turtle
Sound Recording
Arthur Weiss
Screenwriter
Film Details
Genre
Adventure
Action
Release Date
Jan
1964
Premiere Information
San Francisco opening: 20 May 1964
Production Company
Ivan Tors Films
Distribution Company
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
Country
United States
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 31m
Sound
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Color
Color (Metrocolor)
Articles
Rhino!
Hollywood character actor Harry Guardino and Bond girl Shirley Eaton (who was in only seven minutes of Goldfinger that same year, and had her voice dubbed by another actress) got their first taste of international movie stardom as the leads in this this African adventure, which follows the example of Howard Hawks' Hatari! (1962) to the extreme of cadging the exclamation point. In Ivan Tors' Rhino! (1964), Guardino plays a poacher who signs on to assist veldt veterinarian Robert Culp in the capture - for the sake of propagation - of two endangered white rhinos. Though Guardino's hunter-for-hire has ulterior motives, fate lends a hand to set him straight, a mission abetted by his district nurse girlfriend Eaton. However derivative of the Hawks film, Rhino! was no mere exploitation picture. A former MGM screenwriter (In the Good Old Summertime, That Forsyte Woman) and science fiction specialist (The Magnetic Monster, Gog), Tors was also an avowed animal rights activist whose love of the outdoors and wildlife informed his later work on such television series as Sea Hunt (1958-1961), Flipper (1964-1967), Daktari (1966-1968), Gentle Ben (1967-1969), and Cowboy in Africa (1967-1968), a spinoff of his 1967 feature Africa: Texas Style. In 1964, Tors established his own Miami film studio, which would remain his base of operations until his death in 1983. Equally at home under water as on terra firma, the Hungarian expatriate was hired by Eon Productions to direct the underwater scenes for the 1965 James Bond outing Thunderball.
By Richard Harland Smith
By Richard Harland Smith
Rhino!
Hollywood character actor Harry Guardino and Bond girl Shirley Eaton (who was in only seven minutes of Goldfinger that same year, and had her voice dubbed by another actress) got their first taste of international movie stardom as the leads in this this African adventure, which follows the example of Howard Hawks' Hatari! (1962) to the extreme of cadging the exclamation point. In Ivan Tors' Rhino! (1964), Guardino plays a poacher who signs on to assist veldt veterinarian Robert Culp in the capture - for the sake of propagation - of two endangered white rhinos. Though Guardino's hunter-for-hire has ulterior motives, fate lends a hand to set him straight, a mission abetted by his district nurse girlfriend Eaton. However derivative of the Hawks film, Rhino! was no mere exploitation picture. A former MGM screenwriter (In the Good Old Summertime, That Forsyte Woman) and science fiction specialist (The Magnetic Monster, Gog), Tors was also an avowed animal rights activist whose love of the outdoors and wildlife informed his later work on such television series as Sea Hunt (1958-1961), Flipper (1964-1967), Daktari (1966-1968), Gentle Ben (1967-1969), and Cowboy in Africa (1967-1968), a spinoff of his 1967 feature Africa: Texas Style. In 1964, Tors established his own Miami film studio, which would remain his base of operations until his death in 1983. Equally at home under water as on terra firma, the Hungarian expatriate was hired by Eon Productions to direct the underwater scenes for the 1965 James Bond outing Thunderball.
By Richard Harland Smith
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Notes
Filmed at the Umfolozi Game Reserve in Zululand, South Africa.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1964
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1964
