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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Found this little gem on DVD via Amzon.co.uk.The film is about a little boy (excellently played by a very young Fergus MacClelland), whose British parents die under a British bombing of Port Said during the Suez crisis, and he is left to his own devices to, if possible, get to and to find his aunt in Durban, near the other end of the African continent. After many adventures he gets there, involving life and death, but on his way there he meets many people, including an old diamond smuggler, excellently played by Edward G. Robinson, at that time around 70 years old, and doing his very best of acting. The supporting cast is equally good, by the way. The masterful director is the man who made British classics like 'The Guns of Navarone', 'Lady Killers', and 'The Man in the White Suit', Alexander MacKendrick.On the DVD there is an excellent interview with the lead actor, Fergus MacClelland (now with the Royal Shakespeare Company), and with an American director, who had had MacKendrick as teacher in directing.Well worth watching both! You learn that originally the film was over three hours long, but the released copy is just under two hours!

I would like to also concur with most of the previous posters. This movie was perhaps one of the most memorable movie of my entire life. I was first captivated by it when I was about 12-years-old to our 7th or 8th grade Civics & Geography class. It was shown along with another movie about a boy who lived in a tree in Canada--anyone remember that classic?--as well as,the politically motivated film "Z." Apparently it was shown for about ten or more years thereafter, until the projector and the film it self fell into complete disarray....Along with a few other great movies, in my opinion, this is one of the greatest movies of all time.I'm still completely perplexed for the reasons it hasn't been re-released either on DVD or shown on TCM by now? This is truly bizarre. For many years, I always thought the name was "Mogambo"--which was also shown in our school. Nowadays these poor kids are shown a lot of gobbledygook. This ought to be amongst all of the masterpieces, such as, Bread & Chocolate; Dr.Zhivago; The Adventurers, etc.If anyone has any information of how to get a copy of it, please let me know. So far very few movies were ever made the way the Director in this film created it.This is a very psychologically uplifting and powerful film. Ironically, I've mentioned this movie to many people, most who are over 30-years of age, in nearly any country, and they can somehow recall this film.

My review is based on my one viewing of this movie. I saw it in 1967, two years after its release. I was seven years old. My elementary school was showing it after school. I went because the title intrigued me. The title in this country was A BOY TEN FEET TALL. There was a poster on the wall, made by a student (or a teacher) with the title in big letters next to a line drawing of an extremely tall boy. The actual movie was disappointingly realistic to me. I was expecting something like a Popeye cartoon. Ever since seeing it I've asked fellow movie buffs if they remember a movie in which Edward G. Robinson gives sage advice to a boy in the jungle. Nobody I know has ever heard of this. Maybe the fact that it is also called SAMMY GOING SOUTH has caused confusion, because I have always referred to it as A BOY TEN FEET TALL. In the half-a-lifetime since seeing this, I've come to realize that Edward G. Robinson gave it his all. Late-career Edward G. was truly a scene-stealer. He's the reason we remember SOYLENT GREEN. I'll give it 7 stars because I saw it when I was seven and seven is a lucky number. I was lucky to see what has become a rare performance by a great actor.

This is exemplary adventure "EPIC" even.I 1st viewed this movie as a ten year old myself in the 1970's so i was really enthralled and influenced by this role of Sammy.In fact in 1976 i ran away to the great superior lake and the accompanying forests in my attempt to match Sammy's feat in Africa,I even had a Russian ship in harbor offer to take me aboard...good thing i didn't.he he. Eventually i did manage to get to new york via L.I facing Connecticut and managed to get aboard one of the tall ships in the bicentennial. I don't believe i am the 1st person to be so influenced by a movie. Could My story could become a movie???