Beat the Devil (1953)

The script, which was written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot, concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne’er-do-wells trying to lay claim to land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya as they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard an ill-fated tramp steamer en route to Mombasa.

• beach
• dark comedy
• dry humour
• exercise
• italy
• liar
• lie
• narration
• port
• thief
• uranium
• wife husband relationship