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List Price: $12.98 Our Price: $7.99 You Save: $4.99 Features • AC-3 • Closed-captioned • Color • DVD-Video • Letterboxed • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 11 October, 1996 DVD Release : 01 December, 1998 |
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The Ghost and the Darkness description Val Kilmer stars as Lt. Col. John Patterson, a 19th-century Irish engineer drafted by Britain's railroad bosses to build a trestle bridge over an African river, thus expanding the empire a tiny bit more. In Tsavo, Patterson is instantly hailed for killing a man-eating lion that had been making life hell for native workers. But morale sinks when a pair of unstoppable big cats devour more men and destroy the project. Along comes an Ahab-like, expatriate American hunter (Michael Douglas) to help Patterson face the almost preternatural powers of the two killers. The script by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is based on fact, though the film owes more to Spielberg (specifically to Jaws) than history. There are also suggestive echoes of Kipling and Conrad in the material and characters, and there are hints of emotional complexity and psychological nuance that make one wish this could have been a great film instead of a merely fun one. --Tom Keogh |
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| Movies don't often scare me. This one did. There was a point in the movie where I actually shuddered. I've been to the Field Museum in Chicago and have seen the lions and read Patterson's account of the nightmare. The Michael Douglas character is added to give the film depth, but it doesn't detract from the story. I disagree with another reviewer who thought Kilmer and Douglas didn't "click" in this movie. The characters are not friends. The feel is that the two men have competing egos but find themselves on the same side of the fence under horrifying circumstances. Highly recommended for the non-squeamish looking for an exciting adventure based on actual events. | |
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