Dark of the Sun

Dark of the Sun (1968) is a British action drama you can watch online on iFILM. Director Jack Cardiff was first a cinematographer — he lensed Black Narcissus and The African Queen before moving behind the director's chair — and his eye for visual economy is evident even in material this brutal. Rod Taylor and Jim Brown lead a squad of mercenaries into the Congolese civil war.

The mission has two layers: officially, evacuate civilians from a besieged town; quietly, retrieve fifty million dollars in uncut diamonds before the rebels arrive. Peter Carsten plays a man whose wartime history none of the others have forgotten, and the real danger comes from inside the group as much as from outside. Blunt, without irony, and genuinely violent for its era. Watch Dark of the Sun (1968) on iFILM.