Mogambo [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Loew's Incorporated ; screen play by John Lee Mahin ; produced by Sam Zimbalist ; directed by John Ford.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 65922 | Warner Home Video67994 | Warner Home Video (set)79300 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video : Turner Entertainment Co., [2006]Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0790789922
- 1419827375 (set)
- 9780790789927
- 9781419827372 (set)
- Directors of photography, Robert Surtees, F.A. Young ; art director, Alfred Junge ; special effects, Tom Howard ; film editor, Frank Clarke ; recording director, A.W. Watkins ; costumes by Helen Rose ; assistant directors, Wingate Smith, Cecil Ford.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, Rovi
Also issued as part of the box set: Clark Gable the signature collection.
Based on a play by Wilson Collison.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1953.
Special features: Theatrical trailer.
Directors of photography, Robert Surtees, F.A. Young ; art director, Alfred Junge ; special effects, Tom Howard ; film editor, Frank Clarke ; recording director, A.W. Watkins ; costumes by Helen Rose ; assistant directors, Wingate Smith, Cecil Ford.
Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Philip Stainton, Eric Pohlmann, Laurence Naismith, Denis O'Dea and Sambura tribe of Kenya Colony, Wagenia tribe of Belgian Congo, Bahaya tribe of Tanganyika, M'Beti tribe of French Equatorial Africa.
Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell.
CHV rating: PG.
Not rated.
DVD, region 1, NTSC, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono; Dual layer.
In English or dubbed French dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.