Coast of Skeletons

1965 British/South African/German film by Robert Lynn

Not to be confused with Skeleton Coast (film).

Coast of Skeletons

US poster from 1965

Directed by| Robert Lynn
Screenplay by| Anthony Scott Veitch
Story by| Harry Alan Towers
Based on| Sanders of the River
by Edgar Wallace
Produced by| Harry Alan Towers
Starring| Richard Todd
Dale Robertson
Heinz Drache
Marianne Koch
Cinematography| Stephen Dade
Edited by| John Trumper
Music by| Christopher Whelen

Production
companies

Towers of London Films
S.A. Film Studios

Distributed by| Towers of London

Release dates

* 19 March 1965 (1965-03-19) (South Africa)
* 23 August 1965 (1965-08-23) (UK)

Running time

| 91 min.
Countries| United Kingdom
South Africa
West Germany
Language| English

Coast of Skeletons is a 1965 adventure film, directed by Robert Lynn and starring Richard Todd and Dale Robertson. It is a sequel to the 1963 film Death Drums Along the River, and just as that film, it uses the characters from Edgar Wallace's 1911 novel Sanders of the River and Zoltán Korda's 1935 film based on the novel, but placed in a totally different story. Coast of Skeletons was released in Germany as Sanders und das Schiff des Todes/ Sanders and the Ship of Death.

## Plot

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Following independence, the unnamed British colony where Commissioner Harry Sanders has been working for many years sacks its British police force. So Sanders returns to London, where he soon finds work for an insurance company, which wants him to oversee a project to dredge for diamonds in the shallow waters off South West Africa.

Sanders soon finds himself drawn into a web of insurance fraud, a secret hunt for World War II gold bullion, and a rivalrous love triangle between a flamboyant American diamond prospector, a former German U-boat commander in the employ of the American, and the German’s very young wife.

## Main cast

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* Richard Todd as Commissioner Harry Sanders
* Dale Robertson as A.J. Magnus
* Heinz Drache as Janny von Koltze
* Marianne Koch as Helga
* Elga Andersen as Elisabeth von Koltze
* Derek Nimmo as Tom Hamilton
* Gabriel Bayman as Charlie Singer
* George Leech as Carlo Seton
* Gordon Mulholland as Mr. Spyker
* Josh du Toit as Hajo Petersen
* Dietmar Schönherr as Piet van Houten

## Production

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Richard Todd says he agreed to make the film if made more than he was in Death Drums Along the River and if the script - originally written by Towers - was rewritten by Tony Veitch.[1] He says financing for the film briefly fell over prior to production but that Towers found the money. Shooting took place in South Africa in the Durban area. Todd called the film "a straightforward cops-and-robbers story involving diamond smuggling and various other illegal activities; a journeyman subject that would gain interest from the locations where we would be filming."[2]

## References

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1. ^ Todd, Richard (1989). In camera : an autobiography continued. Hutchinson. p. 224.
2. ^ Todd p 246

## External links

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* Coast of Skeletons at the British Film Institute[better source needed]
* Coast of Skeletons at the British Board of Film Classification
* Coast of Skeletons at IMDb
* Coast of Skeletons at the TCM Movie Database

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Films of Harry Alan Towers

* Death Drums Along the River (1963)
* Victim Five (1964)
* Coast of Skeletons (1965)
* Sandy the Seal (1965)
* Mozambique (1965)
* 24 Hours to Kill (1965)
* The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
* Ten Little Indians (1965)
* Our Man in Marrakesh (1966)
* Circus of Fear (1966)
* The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)
* The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967)
* The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967)
* Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967)
* Five Golden Dragons (1967)
* The House of 1,000 Dolls (1967)
* Eve (1968)
* The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
* 99 Women (1969)
* The Girl from Rio (1969)
* Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)
* The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
* Venus in Furs (1969)
* Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion (1970)
* The Bloody Judge (1970)
* Count Dracula (1970)
* Dorian Gray (1970)
* Black Beauty (1971)
* Treasure Island (1972)
* The Call of the Wild (1972)
* White Fang (1973)
* And Then There Were None (1974)
* Blue Belle (1976)
* H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
* King Solomon's Treasure (1979)
* Klondike Fever (1980)
* Black Venus (1983)
* Fanny Hill (1983)
* Lady Libertine (1984)
* Christina (1984)
* Black Arrow (1985)
* Lightning, the White Stallion (1986)
* Skeleton Coast (1987)
* Gor (1987)
* Platoon Leader (1988)
* Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988)
* Outlaw of Gor (1988)
* Edge of Sanity (1989)
* American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)
* River of Death (1989)
* Ten Little Indians (1989)
* The Phantom of the Opera (1989)
* Buried Alive (1990)
* Oddball Hall (1990)
* Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)
* Incident at Victoria Falls (1992)
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* The Mangler (1995)
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* Cry, the Beloved Country (1995)
* Midnight in Saint Petersburg (1996)
* Owd Bob (1998)
* Treasure Island (1999)
* Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express (2000)
* Sumuru (2003)
* Pact with the Devil (2004)

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Edgar Wallace

Novels|

* The Four Just Men (1905)
* Angel Esquire (1908)
* The Council of Justice (1908)
* Captain Tatham (1909)
* The Duke in the Suburbs (1909)
* The Nine Bears (1910)
* Private Selby (1912)
* The Fourth Plague (1913)
* Grey Timothy (1913)
* The River of Stars (1913)
* The Man Who Bought London (1915)
* The Melody of Death (1915)
* A Debt Discharged (1916)
* The Tomb of Ts'in (1916)
* The Just Men of Cordova (1917)
* The Secret House (1917)
* The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1918)
* Down Under Donovan (1918)
* The Man Who Knew (1918)
* Those Folk of Bulboro (1918)
* The Green Rust (1919)
* Kate Plus Ten (1919)
* The Daffodil Mystery (1920)
* Jack O'Judgment (1920)
* The Book of All Power (1921)
* The Law of the Four Just Men (1921)
* The Angel of Terror (1922)
* The Crimson Circle (1922)
* The Flying Fifty-Five (1922)
* Mr. Justice Maxell (1922)
* The Valley of Ghosts (1922)
* The Clue of the New Pin (1923)
* The Green Archer (1923)
* The Missing Million (1923)
* The Dark Eyes of London (1924)
* Double Dan (1924)
* The Face in the Night (1924)
* Room 13 (1924)
* The Sinister Man (1924)
* The Three Oak Mystery (1924)
* Blue Hand (1925)
* The Fellowship of the Frog (1925)
* The Mind of Mr. J. G. Reeder (1925)
* The Strange Countess (1925)
* The Three Just Men (1925)
* The Avenger (1926)
* Barbara on Her Own (1926)
* The Black Abbot (1926)
* The Northing Tramp (1926)
* The Terrible People (1926)
* The Yellow Snake (1926)
* The Big Foot (1927)
* Terror Keep (1927)
* The Traitor's Gate (1927)
* The Squeaker (1927)
* The Forger (1927)
* Again the Three (1928)
* The Gunner (1928)
* Four Square Jane (1929)
* The Green Ribbon (1929)
* The India-Rubber Men (1929)
* The Calendar (1930)
* The Clue of the Silver Key (1930)
* The Lady of Ascot (1930)
* The Man at the Carlton (1931)
* The Guv'nor and Other Short Stories (1932)

Plays|

* An African Millionaire (1904)
* M'Lady (1921)
* Double Dan (1927)
* The Terror (1927)
* The Man Who Changed His Name (1928)
* The Calendar (1929)
* Persons Unknown (1929)
* On the Spot (1930)
* The Mouthpiece (1930)
* Smoky Cell (1930)
* The Old Man (1931)

Screenplays|

* The Valley of Ghosts (1928)
* The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932)
* King Kong (1933)

Adaptations|

| J. G. Reeder|

* Mr. Reeder in Room 13 (1938)
* The Mind of Mr. Reeder (1939)
* The Missing People (1940)
* The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder (1969, TV series)

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The Four Just Men|

* The Four Just Men (1921)
* The Four Just Men (1939)
* The Four Just Men (1959, TV series)

Edgar Wallace Mysteries|

* Urge to Kill (1960)
* Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960)
* The Malpas Mystery (1960)
* Marriage of Convenience (1960)
* The Clue of the New Pin (1961)
* Man at the Carlton Tower (1961)
* The Fourth Square (1961)
* Man Detained (1961)
* Attempt to Kill (1961)
* Clue of the Silver Key (1961)
* Never Back Losers (1961)
* Partners in Crime (1961)
* The Sinister Man (1961)
* Time to Remember (1962)
* Playback (1962)
* Solo for Sparrow (1962)
* Locker Sixty-Nine (1962)
* Incident at Midnight (1963)
* Return to Sender (1963)
* Ricochet (1963)
* Accidental Death (1963)
* Five to One (1963)
* The Verdict (1964)
* We Shall See (1964)
* Act of Murder (1964)
* Change Partners (1965)

Rialto Films|

* Der Frosch mit der Maske (1959)
* The Crimson Circle (1960)
* The Avenger (1960)
* The Terrible People (1960)
* The Green Archer (1961)
* The Dead Eyes of London (1961)
* The Devil's Daffodil (1961)
* The Forger of London (1961)
* The Strange Countess (1961)
* The Puzzle of the Red Orchid (1962)
* The Door with Seven Locks (1962)
* The Inn on the River (1962)
* The Curse of the Yellow Snake (1963)
* The Squeaker (1963)
* The Black Abbot (1963)
* The Indian Scarf (1963)
* Room 13 (1964)
* The Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964)
* Der Hexer (1964)
* The Traitor's Gate (1964)
* Neues vom Hexer (1965)
* The Sinister Monk (1965)
* The Hunchback of Soho (1966)
* The Trygon Factor (1966)
* Creature with the Blue Hand (1967)
* The Monk with the Whip (1967)
* The Hound of Blackwood Castle (1968)
* Im Banne des Unheimlichen (1968)
* The Gorilla of Soho (1968)
* Double Face (1969)
* The Man with the Glass Eye (1969)
* The Body in the Thames (1971)

Other|

* The Man Who Bought London (1916)
* The Green Terror (1919)
* Pallard the Punter (1919)
* Angel Esquire (1919)
* Wanted at Headquarters (1920)
* The River of Stars (1921)
* The Crimson Circle (1922)
* Down Under Donovan (1922)
* Melody of Death (1922)
* The Diamond Man (1924)
* The Flying Fifty-Five (1924)
* The Green Archer (1925 serial)
* The Great Unknown (1927)
* The Terror (1928)
* Mark of the Frog (1928 serial)
* Chick (1928)
* The Forger (1928)
* The Terrible People (1928 serial)
* The Ringer (1928)
* The Man Who Changed His Name (1928)
* The Flying Squad (1929)
* The Crimson Circle (1929)
* The Clue of the New Pin (1929)
* Red Aces (1930)
* The Squeaker (1930)
* The Yellow Mask (1930)
* The Ringer (1931)
* To Oblige a Lady (1931)
* The Calendar (1931)
* The Old Man (1931)
* The Squeaker (1931)
* The Flying Squad (1932)
* The Frightened Lady (1932)
* The Ringer (1932)
* The Menace (1932)
* White Face (1932)
* Giallo (1933)
* The Jewel (1933)
* Before Dawn (1933)
* The Double (1934)
* Mystery Liner (1934)
* The Green Pack (1934)
* The Feathered Serpent (1934)
* The Lad (1935)
* Sanders of the River (1935)
* Born to Gamble (1935)
* Chick (1936)
* Educated Evans (1936)
* The Crimson Circle (1936)
* Prison Breaker (1936)
* Strangers on Honeymoon (1936)
* The Frog (1937)
* The Squeaker (1937)
* The Gaunt Stranger (1938)
* Dangerous to Know (1938)
* Kate Plus Ten (1938)
* Thank Evans (1938)
* The Terror (1938)
* The Return of the Frog (1938)
* Flying Fifty-Five (1939)
* The Dark Eyes of London (1939)
* The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)
* The Door with Seven Locks (1940)
* The Flying Squad (1940)
* The Green Archer (1940 serial)
* The Missing Million (1942)
* The Calendar (1948)
* The Ringer (1952)
* The Avenger (1960)
* Death Drums Along the River (1963)
* Coast of Skeletons (1964)
* Circus of Fear (1966)
* Five Golden Dragons (1967)
* The Devil Came from Akasava (1970)
* The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)
* What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
* Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)

Television|

* Educated Evans (1957–58)
* The Mixer (1992)

Family|

* Mary Jane Richards (mother)
* Marriott Edgar (half-brother)
* Bryan Edgar Wallace (son)

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