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The Macomber Affair

  • 19471947
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 29m
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6.6/10
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The Macomber Affair (1947)
AdventureDrama
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
876
YOUR RATING
    • Zoltan Korda
  • Writers
    • Ernest Hemingway(story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")
    • Seymour Bennett(adaptation)
    • Frank Arnold(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Gregory Peck
    • Joan Bennett
    • Robert Preston
    • Zoltan Korda
  • Writers
    • Ernest Hemingway(story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")
    • Seymour Bennett(adaptation)
    • Frank Arnold(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Gregory Peck
    • Joan Bennett
    • Robert Preston
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    • 21User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
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    Vernon Downing in The Macomber Affair (1947)
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    Reginald Denny in The Macomber Affair (1947)
    Gregory Peck and Joan Bennett in The Macomber Affair (1947)
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    Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck
    • Robert Wilson
    Joan Bennett
    Joan Bennett
    • Margaret 'Margo' Macomber
    Robert Preston
    Robert Preston
    • Francis Macomber
    Reginald Denny
    Reginald Denny
    • Police Inspector
    Jean Gillie
    Jean Gillie
    • Aimee
    Carl Harbord
    • Coroner
    Earl Smith
    • Kongoni
    Frederick Worlock
    Frederick Worlock
    • Clerk
    Vernon Downing
    • Reporter Logan
    Darby Jones
    Darby Jones
    • Masai Warrior
    • (uncredited)
    Hassan Said
    • Abdullah
    • (uncredited)
    Martin Wilkins
    • Bartender
    • (uncredited)
      • Zoltan Korda
    • Writers
      • Ernest Hemingway(story "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber")
      • Seymour Bennett(adaptation)
      • Frank Arnold(adaptation)
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    • 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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    7/10
    One of the more successful attempts to film a Hemingway story...
    THE MACOMBER AFFAIR has to be rated a success for the mere fact that it finally brings a Hemingway story to the screen pretty much intact and the way he wrote it. GREGORY PECK may not be the perfect choice to play the guide escorting a quarrelsome JOAN BENNETT and ROBERT PRESTON on a safari, but he acquits himself well enough in the role.

    I found it a lot more satisfying than the later SNOWS OF KILIMINJARO in which Peck again was cast in the lead as a Hemingway white hunter in Africa. Although that film had the advantage of Technicolor and more expensive trappings, THE MACOMBER AFFAIR achieves more of an edge by being photographed in somber B&W, even though some of the stock footage and backgrounds are obviously studio shots.

    Bennett is fascinating as the woman full of scorn for her husband and gradually showing her interest in Peck while Preston's resentment begins to turn paranoid. Miklos Rozsa's score gives it a film noir feeling despite the jungle setting--and it becomes a war of nerves before the satisfying conclusion.

    Well worth watching for some interesting performances.
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    • Release date
      • August 29, 1947 (Mexico)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Tecate, Baja California Norte, Mexico
    • Production company
      • Benedict Bogeaus Production
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    • 1 hour 29 minutes
      • Black and White

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