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Released
1994 · FILM

A Good Man in Africa

Directed by
Written by
Runtime
94 min
Comedy

Synopsis

Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jim ClarkShot by Andrzej BartkowiakScored by John Du PrezDesigned by Herbert Pinter

Box Office

1994 · Box office

Grossed $2.3M worldwide

Worldwide gross

$2.3M

Worldwide gross$2.3M

Opening weekend: $1.1M 50% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.5M67% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 794 theaters

Also known as

  • Un buen hombre en Áfricaes
  • Un Anglais sous les tropiquesfr
  • Alla ricerca dello stregoneit

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