East of Sudan is a 1964 British adventure film directed by Nathan Juran and featuring Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms and Derek Fowlds.
Much of this stock footage makes no sense as it shows species and cultural activities linked to central Africa rather than the Sudan.
Murchison's knowledge of the nearby Mahdist held fort enables them to blow up the arsenal and save the day.
Murchison is commended for bravery by a British major, whereas Baker is arrested for desertion, but Margaret confirms her love for him.
"If 10 percent or less of a film made in the United Kingdom was comprised of stock footage, you received a government subsidy.
The action sequences of East of Sudan used stock footage from Beyond Mombassa,[1] Odongo and Safari (all 1956), and The Four Feathers (1939).
[6] The Monthly Film Bulletin called it "shamelessly unoriginal hokum with Anthony Quayle as a poor man's Stewart Granger and Sylvia Syms as a ditto Deborah Kerr, some laboured tongue-in-cheek humour and an inordinate amount of stockpile animal footage.