Harry Alan Towers presents… The continuation of the adventures of the ruthlessly exploited British Inspector Sanders, the hero of the novel series Edgar Wallace and several unrelated films.
After a successful case in "Death Drums along the River", suddenly (for us) is dismissed, though with honors, so his character remains positive. Settled in an insurance company, where the goal is to trace the intentions of a slippery type. Not so much a notoriously negative character as an antagonist of Sanders himself, such a typical Texan who prefers everything fast: cars, money, relationships with women and problem solving. The British see the difference between themselves and the Americans. That is, to the racist motives in "Death Drums..." in relation to the aborigines, nationalist (which, for obvious reasons, is not in the German Wallace films) .
Although this dilogy is nominally included in the official series (38 films from 59 to 72), there is no quality control, only the rights to the novel, and several German actors. Among them stands out H. Drahe as the captain of the ship, a former Nazi officer of the submarine, looking for sunken gold. And the point is not that the taste and color he is something better than other actors (R. Todd and D. Robertson), or his character is more dramatic and complex spelled out, but that the lines of other characters mercilessly break. The Texan appears exclusively with the captain's wife, a character so minor that she even had to undress. Sanders, however, does not notice anything except the charms of the heroine M. Koch, playing the photographer (at the same time we will not see her with a camera), and concurrently and the sister of the captain (in "Death Drums..." she played the doctor with the same success, that is, as here, mainly love-girl Sanders).
Although the final is justified logically, it is too fleeting, which is seen as budgetary difficulties of production. Instead of the African shore of the skeletons of sunken ships, we are left to see the lonely skeleton of a ship on a narrow strip of land. A sad sight that sums up the mood of the whole film.