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Desert of Lies(1984)
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Date: 1984-03-13
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The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same desolate stretch of Kalahari Desert. In 1848 the Broon family are sent by the London Missionary Society to look for and convert a legendary race of strangely deformed savages. In 1983, a team of three people go off in search of what really happened.
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Movie: Desert of Lies
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Mick Ford
Jake
Cherie Lunghi
Sue
Tom Bell
Abel Broom
Louis Mahoney
Sylveste
John Matshikiza
Bushman
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The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same desolate stretch of Kalahari Desert. In 1848 the Broon family are sent by the London Missionary Society to look for and convert a legendary race of strangely deformed savages. In 1983, a team of three people go off in search of what really happened.
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