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The Ghost and the Darkness

Year:
Duration:
109 min
Genres:
Action | Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6.8
Director:
Stephen Hopkins
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 2 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1996-10-11
Filming Locations: Songimvelo Game Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa
Earnings
Budget: $55,000,000
Opening Weekend: $9,215,063 (USA) (13 October 1996)
Gross: $38,553,833 (USA) (9 February 1997)
Cast
Actor
Character
Brian McCardie
Brian McCardie
The Ghost and the Darkness
Michael Douglas
Charles Remington
Val Kilmer
Col. John Henry Patterson
Tom Wilkinson
Robert Beaumont
John Kani
Samuel
Bernard Hill
Dr. David Hawthorne
Emily Mortimer
Helena Patterson
Om Puri
Abdullah
Henry Cele
Mahina
Kurt Egelhof
Indian Victim
Satchu Annamalai
Worker #1
Teddy Reddy
Worker #2
Raheem Khan
Worker #3 (as Rakeem Khan)
Jack Devnarain
Nervous Sikh Orderly
Glen Gabela
Orderly #1
Richard Nwamba
Orderly #2
Nick Lorentz
Photographer
Alex Ferns
Stockton
Kaycey Padayachee
Beaumont's Valet
Giles Masters
Beaumont's Clerk
Patrick Gifford
Patterson's Son
Justin Gifford
Patterson's Son
George Middlekoop
Station Master
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Trivia
The book, the maneaters of tsavo is still available after nearly 100 years, and well worth reading
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The Lions of Tsavo were maneless, perhaps due to environmental variables, although maneless lions are not unique to Tsavo. Their taste for man may have been due to an outbreak of Rinderpest at the time, which may have depleted their normal prey. The legend surrounding this event is almost entirely based on the books written by Patterson which became run-away best sellers for their day, and made Patterson a good bit of money. It is possible, if not probable, the count of 140 deaths may have been trumped up a bit. Patterson certainly set himself up as the hero of the story, which certainly fit in with the Western notion of the "great white hunter" of the period. It is known that he killed both lions (both nearly nine feet long), and that they did indeed kill and eat humans. It is also possible that they did this because they may not have been able to kill and eat their normal prey as the jaws of the two show some sign of unusual dental disease. They now reside in the permanent collection of the Field Museum of Chicago, but the government of Kenya is moving to try to obtain the pair.
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Despite having top billing, Michael Douglas doesn't appear on screen until 45 minutes into the movie.
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Goofs
In reality, Patterson killed both lions himself. The great white hunter Remington is complete fiction, and no one like that was ever present in Tsavo during the time the events took place.
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In one scene, Remington tells Patterson that "We have an expression in prize fighting: 'Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.' Well my friend, you've just been hit." The events of this film take place in or closely around 1898, however the prizefighting expression used by Remington was coined by World War 2 era boxing great Joe Louis, who was not even born until 1914.
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Patterson climbs the tree to escape a lion that has blood which appears and disappears from its face.
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Quotes
Charles Remington: [melancholy] My life was shaped because someone invented gunpowder, and that's what took me around the world. But the memory that I wanted, that was the family that I lost.
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Charles Remington: Lions don't do this. Lions... never had a lair like this. They're doing it for the pleasure.
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Helena Patterson: You build bridges, John. You have to go where the rivers are.
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Photos from cast
Brian McCardie
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