
Early 1960s adventure drama set in Africa After narrowly escaping a bomb blast that destroys his home & kills both of his parents in Port Said Egypt during the Suez crisis ten-year-old Sammy (Fergus Mc Clelland) decides to walk to Durban in South Africa to find his only living relative an aunt he has never met As he makes his 4500-mile journey across Africa Sammy has all kinds of adventures including a run-in with the slave trade & is forced to survive on his wits alone Edward G Robinson co-stars as Cocky Wainwright a wily old diamond smuggler who befriends Sammy