Satanskoraal

Screening Details

Running Time: 79 min. (Black and White) / Copyright Date: not given / Release Date: 30 November 1959 / Languages: Afrikaans, English & Portuguese / Genre: Crime / Alternative Title: none.

Synopsis

When it is discovered that tons of coral have disappeared from the seabed off the coast of Inhaca Island across what is now Maputo Bay, the Mozambican authorities call in Ponie de Wet, a rich South African who is an expert on the subject. Accompanied by his valet, Gamat, he flies to Lourenco Marques (staying at the Polana Hotel) before starting his investigations. While exploring the ocean floor, he meets a young woman who turns out to be in cahoots with the villains and is supposed to keep Ponie’s mind on other things – without much success. Apparently “a certain foreign power” is removing the coral in order to deposit it in the Gulf Stream, thus growing a barrier reef that will cause Western Europe to freeze over. In the meantime Ponie’s secretary, who is in love with her boss, flies in from Cape Town to assist him, while the villains are devising plans to eliminate them all....

Cast

Ponie de Wet (Ponie de Wet), Tessa Laubscher (Anita Dumont), Gabriel Bayman (Gamat Slingers), Lindea Bosman (Miss Malan), Desmond Varaday (Boss), Jan Bruyns (du Plooy), Willie Herbst (Henchman), Felix Sevell (Henchman), Peter Chiswell (Consul's Secretary), Dana Niehaus (Foreign Affairs Official), Hans Kaniuk (van Wyk), Don Barrigo - uncredited (Radio Operator).