Desert of Lies

1984 | 83 minutes | 0.0 ★ (0)

Desert of Lies
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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.

  • Release Date

    13 March 1984

  • DirectingPiers Haggard
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