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The Roots of Heaven is a 1958 film based on the novel Les racines du ciel by Romain Gary. Directed by John Huston and Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck Distributed by 20th Century Fox

William Holden left the production.
Trevor Howard
replaced Holden. Errol Flynn
assumed top billing.

The story of a crusading environmentalist out to preserve the Elephants as a lasting symbol of freedom for all humanity, the film was made on location in French Equatorial Africa. The cast and crew suffered from the heat, malaria and other tropical diseases.

It is the memories of the challenging location that Flynn mentions with affection in his memoirs My Wicked, Wicked Ways (1959).

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