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Men of Two Worlds Series: Thorold Dickinson’s World of Cinema Director: Thorold Dickinson, Country: United Kingdom, Release: 1946, Runtime: 90 Dickinson’s first color film was an outgrowth of his exemplary work with the Army Kinematograph Service. His assignment came from the Colonial Office, and along with the writer Joyce Cary he fashioned an interesting story of a European-trained African composer and musician named Kisenga (Robert Adams) who returns to his village in Tanganyika (now Tanzania). He is asked to help two British doctors (Phyllis Calvert and Eric Portman) in their effort to bring Western medicine to the villagers and put an end to sleeping sickness. As he did with The High Command, Dickinson shot a great deal of location footage, only to see most of it ruined. The final result, though far from Dickinson’s original conception, is an absorbing if at times disconcertingly studio-bound drama of the clash of cultures, with some wonderful set-pieces (including the majestic opening concert sequence and, even more impressive, Kisenga’s fever dream). It is also a virtual time capsule of the brief moment after the war when Western-bred internationalism seemed like it might become the world’s savior.

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