Der flüsternde Tod

"Albino" is a movie made in Rhodesia four years before the nation became independent and was renamed 'Zimbabwe'. It's not surprising that the theme of the film is about terrorism, as the nation was descending into civil war and anarchy at this time.

The plot is very simple. An albino black man has become the leader of a rebel group. In an act of terror and defiance, he and his men abduct a white woman...raping and murdering her. The rest of the film is about the efforts to bring these killers to justice and to try to prevent the whites in the country from taking the law into their own hands. The guy trying to stop both sides from killing each other is Bill (Christopher Lee).

There are many problems with this movie. It was filmed in Rhodesia and it appears that many of the folks in the film aren't actors at all. Additionally, the cinematography is pretty poor and the movie just looks cheap. Additionally, the film seems like it's trying to titilate...showing irrelevant footage of topless natives as well as a very vivid rape scene which SHOULD have been toned down. Apparently, when the film was brought for release in the UK, censors demanded they cut much of the rape footage.