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Actor: Alun Armstrong, Anne Dunkley, Charlotte Cornwell, David Danns, Marisa BerensonBrand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Jeff Fahey
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Cantonese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Taiwanese Chinese (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Portuguese (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 112 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-02
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of White Hunter, Black Heart
Movie Review: An overlooked gem by a maverick film maker.
Summary: 5 Stars
WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART is perhaps Clint Eastwood's most underrated and overlooked film - made in 1990 and shadowed by Clint's Academy Award winning (and ultimate Western) Unforgiven.
Still, those who have enough sensibility will easily put this film as one of Clint's best, as he tells the story of maverick film maker John Wilson's obsession of hunting a big elephant while starting production of his big extravaganza to be shot in Africa during the 30's. As everybody knows, John Wilson is, in fact, a fictional version of John Huston during the shotting of The African Queen.
Everything here is a fictionalization of real people and real events... from Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall traveling together and Katherine Hepburn's manerisms to John Huston's erratic, suicidal and enigmatic behavior.
But there's more than meets the eye as Clint gives us an unique look into the unknown reasons that drive a man... and the consequences of those impulses.
The film is superbly acted, photographed, edited... and one might wonder why it was so overlooked during its release. Trully a film to be discovered. A journey like no other by a master film maker.
Summary of White Hunter, Black Heart
Clint eastwood stars in and directs the colorful tale of a flamboyant filmmaker's flair for danger and adventure while on location in Africa, based on Peter Viertel's novel inspired by The African Queen. Year: 1990 Director: Clint Eastwood Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George DzundzaUnjustly overlooked in Clint Eastwood's oeuvre, this critical examination of the hubris of machismo predated Unforgiven by just two years and meditated on similar themes. Eastwood plays a macho movie director, in Africa ostensibly to shoot a movie, but more pressingly (to his mind, anyway) to bag an elephant. The story is based loosely on the true story of John Huston's behavior while making The African Queen; Eastwood's Huston imitation (the character here is named Wilson) will no doubt prove distracting to some--he drawls out vowels to the point of breaking--but he captures both the arrogance of and the magnetic force behind the man. The film boasts splendid visuals by cinematographer Jack Green, and the final scene--and Eastwood's performance therein--is nearly heartbreaking. --David Kronke
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