July 30, 1961 - "The Fiercest Heart," a Twentieth Century-Fox dramatization of the novel by Stuart Cloete, arrives this week at neighborhood theatres. George Sherman directed the CinemaScope period adventure, which features Stuart Whitman (left), Juliet Prowse (right), Raymond Massey and Geraldine Fitzgerald. Two British soldiers in 1830s South Africa flee military discipline and join a group of Boers heading north on "the Great Trek." In between fighting off Zulu attacks, one of these soldiers falls in love with the trek-leader's granddaughter who has been promised to another man.
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