The Ghost and the Darkness

The Ghost and the Darkness
by Stephen Hopkins

The Ghost and the Darkness
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Actor: Bernard Hill, John Kani, Michael Douglas, Tom Wilkinson, Val Kilmer
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Brand: Paramount
Producer: Michael Douglas
Producer: A. Kitman Ho
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd
Producer: Grant Hill
Producer: Paul B. Radin
Producer: Steven Reuther
Writer: William Goldman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-12-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount

Movie Reviews of The Ghost and the Darkness

Movie Review: Great movie, awesome cinematography, visualization, and soundtrack.
Summary: 5 Stars

Based on the true elements of the Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo. Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Om Puri, Bernard Hill, so in other words, a great cast.

Check this movie out, it has a solid place in my library, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. If at least from the simple fact that most of what occurred in the movie actually happened.

Summary of The Ghost and the Darkness

East africa 1896. Two lions on a man-eating rampage have shut down the construction of a railway. Big-game hunter remington and construction engineer patterson set out to stop these unstoppable monsters. But in this astonishing tale of man vs. Beast the hunters become the hunted. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Michael Douglas Val Kilmer Run time: 109 minutes Rating: R Director: Stephen Hopkins
Val Kilmer stars as Lt. Col. John Patterson, a 19th-century Irish engineer drafted by Britain's railroad bosses to build a trestle bridge over an African river, thus expanding the empire a tiny bit more. In Tsavo, Patterson is instantly hailed for killing a man-eating lion that had been making life hell for native workers. But morale sinks when a pair of unstoppable big cats devour more men and destroy the project. Along comes an Ahab-like, expatriate American hunter (Michael Douglas) to help Patterson face the almost preternatural powers of the two killers. The script by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is based on fact, though the film owes more to Spielberg (specifically to Jaws) than history. There are also suggestive echoes of Kipling and Conrad in the material and characters, and there are hints of emotional complexity and psychological nuance that make one wish this could have been a great film instead of a merely fun one. --Tom Keogh

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