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Release Date:
18 December 1952 (Australia)
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Tagline:
His Adventures . . . Like His Loves . . . Were Great and Exciting !
Plot:
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 2 Oscars.
Another 1 nomination
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What would Papa have said about this one?
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Gregory Peck | ... | Harry Street | |
| Susan Hayward | ... | Helen | |
| Ava Gardner | ... | Cynthia Green | |
| Hildegard Knef | ... | Countess Liz (as Hildegarde Neff) | |
| Leo G. Carroll | ... | Uncle Bill | |
| Torin Thatcher | ... | Johnson | |
| Ava Norring | ... | Beatrice (model) | |
| Helene Stanley | ... | Connie (Harry's first girl) | |
| Marcel Dalio | ... | Emile | |
| Vicente Gómez | ... | Guitarist (as Vicente Gomez) | |
| Richard Allan | ... | Spanish dancer |
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Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro (USA) (complete title)
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Runtime:
114 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Argentina:Atp |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:PG (re-rating) (1989) |
West Germany:16 (f) |
Canada:PG (video rating) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:Approved (PCA #15807)
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Gregory Peck resisted taking the role because an earlier Ernest Hemingway adaptation he had appeared in, The Macomber Affair (1947) had been a box-office flop.
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Continuity: In bringing down the rhino, Harry Street manages to squeeze off three shots from a double-barreled rifle.
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Featured in A Conversation with Gregory Peck (1999)
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Ernest Hemingway, one of the most admired writers of the last century, was alive when this movie came out in 1952. One wonders what did Mr. Hemingway think the creative 'geniuses' behind this film did to "The Snows of Killimanjaro"? Hollywood didn't do so well in adapting Papa's novels to the screen, but who knows, he must have been able to pay for another safari to Africa, or maybe another fishing trip with the "old man" in Cuba with the money he got after he sold the film's rights. As a novel, "The Snows of Killimanjaro" was not one of Mr. Hemingway's best works.
God only knows that what director Henry King and his team had in mind when they undertook to do the film based on Hemingway's novel? Maybe Mr. King wanted to travel to all the places in which the action is set. The only thing one can say is that after more than fifty years this wasn't a good film then, or now.
The acting is bad in general. Gregory Peck, an otherwise brilliant actor, does nothing to bring Harry Street to life. The Helen of Susan Hayward is at times horrible and completely silly. Ava Gardner's as a driver for the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War? Give me a break! There is one scene in which Harry and Cynthia are dining and drinking in a Madrid restaurant which features a male flamenco dancer who bears an uncanny resemblance to Tyrone Power, and we wondered if this Richard Allan, who is credited with the dancing and charming Ava, was in reality Mr. Power performing an inside joke? Did anyone notice it, or was it me?
At any rate, "The Snows of Killimanjaro", is a film to watch at the viewer's own risk.