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Director:
Writer (WGA):
William Goldman (written by)
Release Date:
11 October 1996 (USA)
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Tagline:
Control Your Fear more
Plot:
Set in 1898, this movie is based on the true story of two lions in Africa that killed 130 people over a nine month period...
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Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 2 nominations
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A tense, intense, and spooky hunt
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michael Douglas | ... | Charles Remington |
 | Val Kilmer | ... | Col. John Henry Patterson |
 | Tom Wilkinson | ... | Robert Beaumont |
 | John Kani | ... | Samuel |
 | Bernard Hill | ... | Dr. David Hawthorne |
| Brian McCardie | ... | Angus Starling |
 | Emily Mortimer | ... | Helena Patterson |
 | Om Puri | ... | Abdullah |
| Henry Cele | ... | Mahina |
| Kurt Egelhof | ... | Indian Victim |
| Satchu Annamalai | ... | Worker #1 |
| Teddy Reddy | ... | Worker #2 |
| Raheem Khan | ... | Worker #3 (as Rakeem Khan) |
| Jack Devnarain | ... | Nervous Sikh Orderly |
| Glen Gabela | ... | Orderly #1 |
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Rated R for some violence and gore involving animal attacks.
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Runtime:
109 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Brazil:14 |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Iceland:16 |
USA:R (certificate #33990) |
South Korea:15 |
UK:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:M |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-16 |
Germany:12 (w) |
Norway:15 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15
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The real Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson published a book about his experiences, titled "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo."
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Goofs:
Continuity: The hand that Patterson is holding his rifle in when running to discover Remington's body.
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Quotes:
Charles Remington:
Well, I'm a very considerate man. My mother taught me that.
[Samuel laughs]
Charles Remington: Now, what the hell you laughing about? You don't think I'm considerate?
Samuel: I don't believe you had a mother.
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[Samuel laughs]
Charles Remington: Now, what the hell you laughing about? You don't think I'm considerate?
Samuel: I don't believe you had a mother.
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Movie Connections:
Version of Killers of Kilimanjaro (1959)
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Soundtrack:
Jungal Bahar (The Prey Song)
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"The Ghost and the Darkness" is a marvellous movie, in the literal sense: the lions come out of the long grass in the daylight or the groundfog in the darkness like the devils they are thought to be. No true motives are ascribed to them, as how could they be?, and that actually serves to make them more demonically terrifying. But whether they are the devils come to prevent Val Kilmer's Patterson from building his bridge, or merely (!) animals hunting for the pleasure of it, they provide more suspense, more terror, and more death than most high-tech cgi aliens. Michael Douglas's Remington, dispossessed of home and family in the American civil war, is an interesting character, but it's Kilmer's British bridge-builder in a time where engineers had to know how to shoot tigers and manage Hindu-Muslim conflicts fully as much as how to put up their structures, who is the focus of the film, and rightly so. Kilmer's performance is quiet, almost understated, but one of the best I've seen him give; he's fully convincing, especially as he fights the belief that the lions are, in fact, out to get him personally. "They are just lions," he says halfway through the movie, and you can hear how much he wants to believe it. John Kani also gives a good performance, contained mostly in small moments that are so true they almost hurt. The cinematography is beautiful, especially the of the lion attacks and their passages through the grass. Again, no cgi effects could convey so much beauty and lurking menace. This movie is beautiful, intense, and dramatic; I highly recommend it.