Sanders of the River

His aide (Robert Cochrane) hapless, Brit administrator Leslie Banks (title character) deals directly with females rescued from slave traders, who show keen interest in his appointed ruler Bosambo (Paul Robeson), who himself focuses on Lilongo (Nina Mae McKinney), in Sanders Of The River, 1935.

From a prologue in praise of British civil servants, we meet Leslie Banks (title character) and aides (Robert Cochrane, Richard Grey) in what is now Nigeria, then the real star, Paul Robeson, as a somewhat shiftless native, opening the Korda brothers' Sanders Of The River, 1935.

Brit colonial boss Leslie Banks (title character) and crew send word to Paul Robeson (as Bosambo, a loyal petty thief they've made chief of an African tribe) calling for action, and an original song by Mischa Poliansky and Arthur Wimperis, in the Korda brothers' Sanders Of The River, 1935.