Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - Ko te pouri o te ra (e mohiotia ana ko te The Mercenaries i te UK) he kiriata pakanga 1968 i wheturangitia e Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Brown, me Peter Carsten. Ko te kiriata, na Jack Cardiff i whakahaere, i ahu mai i te pukapuka a Wilbur Smith i te tau 1965, "The Dark of the Sun". Ko te kōrero e pā ana ki tētahi rōpū o ngā hōia i tonoa ki tētahi misioni mōrearea i te wā o te Raruraru o Kongo
i whakaingoatia ki tētahi pikitia nā Ranald MacDougall. I whakawakia e nga kaiwhakawhiwhi te kiriata i tana tukunga tuatahi mo ona whakaaturanga whakairoiro o te tutu me te tukino.