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The Macomber Affair (1947)
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17 September 1947 (France) moreTagline:
Peck...Bennett...Hemingway...only all three together could create this electric love story...with a vengeance! (oiginal poster)Plot:
Robert Wilson leads safaris on the Kenyan savannah. On this occasion, he takes Mr. and Mrs. Macomber out to chase buffalo... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
White Hunter, Black Hearts moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Gregory Peck | ... | Robert Wilson | |
| Joan Bennett | ... | Margaret Macomber | |
| Robert Preston | ... | Francis Macomber | |
| Reginald Denny | ... | Police Inspector | |
| Jean Gillie | ... | Aimee | |
| Carl Harbord | ... | Coroner | |
| Earl Smith | ... | Kongoni | |
| Frederick Worlock | ... | Clerk | |
| Vernon Downing | ... | Reporter Logan |
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The Great White Hunter (USA) (reissue title)The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (USA) (working title)
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89 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)Fun Stuff
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For the African scenes, Reginald Denny invented the first radio-controlled model airplane and, with Osmond Borradaile, put a camera on board in 1946. moreFAQ
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This Zoltan Korda adaptation of Hemingway's bitter tale of big game hunting and marital infidelity is the best movie adaptation of this author's work I have ever seen. Only Gregory Peck seems miscast in what is basically a Trevor Howard part, but this doesn't bring the movie down, it merely limits it. As the superficially charming, boyish, gregarious and basically not very nice Macomber, Robert Preston is brilliant, and he gives a daring, emotionally open performance. Joan Bennett is good as his wife, better than Peck but not perfect casting, either. What makes the movie work is its nasty story, and Casey Robinson's excellent and correct interpretation of it. The Hemingway mood, macho and misogynist, and misanthropic more than anything else, is caught to such perfection one might almost suspect that he was technical adviser (he wasn't). British East Africa is given the Tarzan treatment on screen, typical of the forties but for some difficult to take now. I find that it works, as Tarzan and Hemingway weren't a million miles apart in temperament and values, though I imagine that Tarzan was nicer fellow to get along with.