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Story of the sister of a missionary and a heavy-drinking engineer in Africa during the First World War, who are forced to escape from the Germans down the river in an old boat and conceive a plan to improvise torpedos to attach to the boat in order to attack a German gun-boat in a lake at the river's end.

Main locations for the film were the Ruiki River, a small tributary of the River Congo, and Butiaba in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire).

©1951 Romulus Films Ltd Romulus presents a Romulus-Horizon production