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Mogambo

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Mogambo
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NR,1hr 55min
Genres:
Action,Drama,Romance
Released:
January 1, 1953
Director:
John Ford
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly  ...more
Synopsis: The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable's 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was lensed on the MGM backlot, Mogambo was shot on location in Africa by director John Ford. Gable is safari leader Victor Marswell, who plays "host" to stranded Eloise Y. Kelly (Ava Gardner, who is no better than she ought to be but is just right for our raffish hero -- the Gardner role was originally played along franker pre-Code lines by Jean Harlow). Anthropologist Donald Nordley ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
The stars (and the scenery) are the thing in Mogambo, John Ford's somewhat lackluster remake of Red Dust. Forget about the script; it's not terrible, by any means, but it's also not particularly good, with dialogue that's incredibly uneven. More problematically, the romance and the adventure don't quite come together here, making the film feel as if it's two separate movies occupying one space; the ... Full Review
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Clark Gable
Victor Marswell
Ava Gardner
Eloise Y. Kelly
Grace Kelly
Linda Nordley
Donald Sinden
Donald Nordley
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