Mogambo (1953)
- Directed by
- John Ford
- Genre
- drama film, adventure film, romance film
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Runtime
- 1h 51m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 180 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A white hunter in East Africa gets caught in a love triangle with two women. One is a glamorous actress and the other is a married woman visiting with her husband.
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What happens
Mogambo is a 1953 Technicolor adventure/romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly, and featuring Donald Sinden. It was shot on location in colonial British East Africa, Tanganyika, Uganda Protectorate, and French Congo, with a musical soundtrack consisting almost entirely of traditional music recorded in Congo. The film was adapted by John Lee Mahin from the play Red Dust (1928) by Wilson Collison. It is considered a remake of the film Red Dust (1932), which was set in Vietnam and also starred Gable in the same role. The original trailer for the film claimed that "Mogambo" meant "the greatest" but, in fact, the word has no meaning at all. Producer Sam Zimbalist came up with the title by altering the name of the Mocambo, a famous Hollywood nightclub. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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