Afrikan taivaan alla

Name: The Macomber Affair
Genre: Adventure
Released: 1950-06-24
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston

Original title: The Macomber Affair

19471947
K-16K-16
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

860

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Adventure

In British East Africa, a fatal triangle develops involving a frustrated wife, a weak and coward husband, and an English big-game hunter who comes between the couple.In British East Africa, a fatal triangle develops involving a frustrated wife, a weak and coward husband, and an English big-game hunter who comes between the couple.In British East Africa, a fatal triangle develops involving a frustrated wife, a weak and coward husband, and an English big-game hunter who comes between the couple.

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

860

YOUR RATING

Director
- Zoltan Korda
Writers
- Ernest Hemingway(story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")
- Seymour Bennett(adaptation)
- Frank Arnold(adaptation)
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Vernon Downing in Afrikan taivaan alla (1947)

Carl Harbord in Afrikan taivaan alla (1947)

Jean Gillie in Afrikan taivaan alla (1947)

Robert Preston in Afrikan taivaan alla (1947)

Reginald Denny in Afrikan taivaan alla (1947)

Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett in Afrikan taivaan alla (1947)

Trivia
For the African scenes, Reginald Denny invented the first radio-controlled model airplane and, with Osmond Borradaile, put a camera on board in 1946.

Goofs
When Margaret and Robert start out on their safari driving across the country, in close shots they are shown looking out the right side of their truck at wildlife, but the shots of the animals they are presumably viewing are taken out the left side of a moving vehicle.

Connections
Featured in O ziliarogatos (1956)

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Featured review

5/10

A Hemingway primer on what it is to be a "man"

Based on a Hemingway short story. And Hemingway knew how to craft stories that epitomized realms of male supremacy. His world was one of combat, African safaris, bull rings all the places where "real men" constantly had to prove masculine courage. Women were an accessory the old "Can't live with them, Can't live without them" philosophy.

In this movie, all that comes across in spades. Robert Preston is Francis Mocamber, led around by the nose on a chain by his wife Margaret, played by Joan Bennett. They hire great white hunter Robert Wilson, portrayed by Gregory Peck, to guide them on safari. In the Mocamber marriage it's the wife who wears both the pants and the skirt. The trip is no picnic in the jungle but a miserable, forced emotional trek where the two men just get worn out by Margaret's constant authoritarianism and general bitchiness. Tragedy ensueswho woulda guessed it?!

Not much more to be said. If you subscribe to the Hemingway universe, this movie is for you.

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