No Picnic at Mt. Kenya
Norman Felton, 1953
No Picnic on Mount Kenya
Felice Benuzzi, 1947
No Picnic at Mt. Kenya is a movie directed by Norman Felton in 1953 and based on the book No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three Pow’s Escape to Adventure by Felice Benuzzi, first published in 1947. The movie features Robert Montgomery, David Balfour, Charles Benjamen, George Chandler, Michael V. Gazzo, Bruce Gordon, and others.
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Storyline
Based on a true story from World War II, the film tells the story of Felice Benuzzi, one of 10,000 prisoners of war held at the Kenya camp. Benuzzi and two others managed to escape the camp by successfully scaling down the 17,000-foot high Mt. Kenya. Episode of the American dramatic television series ‘Robert Montgomery Presents’.
Genres
Movie vs Book
Year
1953
Minutes
60
Movie Rate
0.00
Source: IMDb
Year
1947
Pages
248
Book Rate
8.10
S: Goodreads
Book
No Picnic on Mount Kenya
Original title: Fuga sul Kenya
Subtitle: The Story of Three Pow's Escape to Adventure
Author: Felice Benuzzi
Country: Austria
First published in: 1947
Length: 248 pages
Genre: Biography
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Donald Shebib
User polls & recommendations
“Making the book into a television show makes it feel so much more real and so much more like a real rock documentary.”
TAYLOR JENKINS REID (Writer)
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