A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.
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- 1 win & 5 nominations total
Raheem Khan
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- (as Rakeem Khan)
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- TriviaOnly one scene uses a mechanical lion. All the other shots used five adult live male African lions: Bongo and Caesar of Clarington, Ontario, Canada's Bowmanville Zoo, Woltan and Roman of France and Sudan from Animal Actors of Hollywood in Thousand Oaks, California.
- GoofsMahina's (a Muslim) body is burned in a funeral pyre after he is killed and his fellow Muslim workers are shown praying at the event. Cremation is strictly forbidden in Islam.
- Quotes
Mahina: You know, I also have killed a lion.
Angus Starling: How many shots did you need?
Mahina: I used my hands.
- Crazy creditsThe beginning of the end credits is shown with a photograph of the real bridge as background.
- ConnectionsEdited into Kot (2005)
- SoundtracksHamara Haath (Our Hands Unite)
Written and Produced by George Acogny
Performed by The Worldbeaters with The Johannesburg Choir, featuring Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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decent adventure yarn
"The Ghost & the Darkness" is a very good adventure flick set in Africa in the late 19th century, and is based on a true incident. Kilmer plays an engineer sent to build a railroad bridge over the Tsavo river. Work is halted by attacks from two man-eating lions which terrorize the workers. Seems these lions are exhibiting behavior not seen in lions before, i.e. they appear to be hunting for sport ('the Ghost' and 'the Darkness' are the names given to the 2 lions by the native workers). Douglas plays a famous renegade American hunter, a tragically scarred Civil War veteran, hired by the railroad to kill the lions.
Good adventure, well-paced, with stunning photography of the African countryside. The movie has an "R" rating which I can't figure out; perhaps because of the bloodiness of the lion dinner scenes (and lunch, and breakfast, and between-meal snacks....). I have seen many PG13's which have more blood & guts than this.
I give it a straight A; my 10-year old son gave it an enthusiastic thumbs-up also).
Good adventure, well-paced, with stunning photography of the African countryside. The movie has an "R" rating which I can't figure out; perhaps because of the bloodiness of the lion dinner scenes (and lunch, and breakfast, and between-meal snacks....). I have seen many PG13's which have more blood & guts than this.
I give it a straight A; my 10-year old son gave it an enthusiastic thumbs-up also).
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Box office
- Budget
- $55,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $38,619,405
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,215,063
- Oct 13, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $38,619,405
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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What was the official certification given to The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) in France?
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