Mogambo Summary
Director: John Ford
Genres: Adventure, Romance
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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 (Donald_Sinden) hires Victor to lead him into the deepest, darkest jungle. Along for the ride is Donald's wife, Linda (Grace_Kelly), outwardly cool as a cucumber but secretly harboring a lust for Victor. Scorned, Kelly tries to kill Victor, but true-blue Eloise takes the blame for the shooting. Reportedly, Grace_Kelly carried on an off-camera romance with Clark_Gable, which ended when the differences in their ages proved insurmountable. Even so, it is the easy rapport between Gable and Ava_Gardner which stole the show in Mogambo. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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