Rating: NR
Genre:
Adventure
Release Date: 06/20/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
The 1953
Clark Gable film
Mogambo is a remake of
Gable's 1932 seriocomic
adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was lensed on the
MGM backlot,
Mogambo was shot on location in Africa by director
John Ford.
Gable is safari leader
Victor Marswell, who plays "host" to stranded
Eloise Y. Kelly (
Ava Gardner, who is no better than she ought to be but is just right for our raffish hero -- the
Gardner role was originally played along franker pre-Code lines by
Jean Harlow). Anthropologist
Donald Nordley (
Donald Sinden) hires
Victor to lead him into the deepest, darkest jungle. Along for the ride is
Donald's wife,
Linda (
Grace Kelly), outwardly cool as a cucumber but secretly harboring a lust for
Victor. Scorned,
Kelly tries to kill
Victor, but true-blue
Eloise takes the blame for the shooting. Reportedly,
Grace Kelly carried on an off-camera romance with
Clark Gable, which ended when the differences in their ages proved insurmountable. Even so, it is the easy rapport between
Gable and
Ava Gardner which stole the show in
Mogambo.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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