Men of Two Worlds

Pinewood Film Studios
1946-09-09
Sound
109m

Handsomely-presented drama about a man caught between his privileged Western education and traditional African roots.

British Guyanese actor Robert Adams plays Kisenga, a Western-educated African man returning to his home village, in this fascinating drama about changing colonial Africa. Caught between the traditions of the villagers and the cultural dominance of the colonial rulers, Kisenga is forced to decide on the right way forward for his country. Shot in glorious Technicolor, this is a pertinent political drama from well-regarded director Thorold Dickinson which tackles the difficult legacy of colonialism as the sun set on the British Empire.

Forgotten Features

A hand-picked assortment of hard-to-see British feature films, featuring mischievous mermaids, murderous minors and military mayhem.

Thanks to decades of DVD and online publishing, not to mention archive revivals and restorations, more of Britain’s screen heritage is available today than ever before. You might even be forgiven for imagining that the whole of British cinema is now just a click away.

But much of that history - from the silent era to the relatively recent past - remains out of reach. This selection from the vaults, hand-picked by the BFI's curators, goes some way to remedying that. These fresh rediscoveries offer something for all tastes: whether futuristic fantasy, battle-of-the-sexes comedy, subversive provocation or an Indian-British rarity.