Mogambo

Flaming love found in the savage heart of the jungle!
Mogambo
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  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: June 20, 2006
  • Originally Released: 1953
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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User Ratings: 2,871
Rating: B -- Clark Gable reprises his role from Fleming's 1932 adventure in this colorful and enjoyable remake by John Ford, featuring great performances by Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Feb 24, 2011
Rating: 3/5 -- the film's travelogue footage is the only thing that seems to save it from pointlessness.
DVDLaser
Jun 14, 2007
Mogambo is a silly, laid-back Hollywood romance with an exotic setting, but it's nonetheless quite affecting and satisfying. Full Review
Combustible Celluloid
Sep 26, 2012
Rating: B -- The easy rapport between Gable and Ava becomes the film's main selling point. Full Review
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Aug 24, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- Too long and too ridiculous. Full Review
DVDTalk.com
Mar 27, 2010
An amusing romantic comedy with an African jungle setting... Enjoyable hokum which never takes itself too seriously. Full Review
Maclean's Magazine
Oct 14, 2019
Gable actually hasn't had one good movie since his return from World War II service. He's got it now in Mogambo. Full Review
Associated Press
Jun 24, 2019

Description by OLDIES.com:

"Hey! A kangaroo," Eloise "Honey Bear" Kelly says when she sees a baby rhinoceros being lifted from an African pit. A Broadway showgirl stranded in the African jungle, Eloise is better suited for the urban jungle. Yet one look at safari guide Victor Marswell and she knows exactly where she wants to be.

Times change but the fun remains when Clark Gable portrays man's-man Victor in a sassy, vibrant remake of Gable's 1932 Red Dust. Ava Gardner plays tough-hided, vulnerable-hearted Eloise. And Grace Kelly is the prim anthropologist's wife who catches Victor's roving eye. Both women earned Oscar nominations, with Kelly also winning a Supporting Actress Golden Globe. Directed by John Ford and filled with his lung-swelling zest for the great outdoors, Mogambo is classic entertainment for anyone's great indoors.

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Clark Gable reprises his role as veteran big-game trapper and guide Vic Marswell in John Ford's remake of RED DUST, the actor's 1932 hit. After a brief fling with Eloise Kelly (Ava Gardner), an adventurer temporarily stranded in Kenya, Vic is hired as a guide by British anthropologist Donald Nordley (Donald Sinden)--who has come to study the gorilla--and his wife, Linda (Grace Kelly). Linda is immediately attracted to Vic and begins flirting with him furiously, behavior that goes unnoticed by her preoccupied husband but not the jealous Eloise, who manages to get in a few verbal jabs at dinner. While walking through the jungle, Vic saves Linda from an attacking panther, and although she tacitly offers herself to him, he passes. As the group's safari heads into gorilla country, the sexual tension between Vic and Linda increases, but her husband's absorption in simian affairs prevents repercussions. However, the gorillas do not reciprocate Donald's interest, and when one of them attacks the scientist, Vic has a chance to be rid of his mild-mannered rival. One of Ford's least typical projects, this comedy of jungle manners includes none of his characteristic themes, but the sardonic John Lee Mahin script, the easy rapport between Gable and Gardner, and the striking photography of the African veldt make it a film well worth watching.

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  • UPC: 012569592223
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