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The Ghost and the Darkness

1996 · Film · 109 min

  • Adventure
  • Thriller
  • History

Plot

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

About The Ghost and the Darkness

The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya in 1898. The film received mixed reviews and grossed $75 million against a production budget of $55 million. It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler.

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Cast

  • Michael DouglasCharles Remington
  • Val KilmerCol. John Henry Patterson
  • Tom WilkinsonSir Robert Beaumont
  • John KaniSamuel
  • Emily MortimerHelena Patterson
  • Bernard HillDr. David Hawthorne
  • Brian McCardieAngus Starling
  • Om PuriAbdullah
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