4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Aug 16, 2021
Whether it’s apocryphal or not the term “Mogambo” is purported to be the Swahili word for “passion,” although it’s difficult to know if this was only hearsay propagated by westerners (now including myself). Regardless, it boasts an intriguing if altogether curiou read more
Share This!The battle of the sexes! The battle of the gorillas!
These two films basically follow the same general plot but as pieces of entertainment are as different as a hurricane and a drought.
And, although this is a reposting of an old post from a few years ago, we have one important change to read more
Two decades after burning up the screen with Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932), Clark Gable returned to the material that had made him one of the preeminent leading men of the 1930s when he starred in Mogambo (1953). This time around, the action–shot on location and brought to life in splendid read more
Mogambo(1953). Directer: John Ford. Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Donald Sinden. The film was adapted from the play by Wilson Colliso. Kelly won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress (1954), and the film was nominated for two Oscars, Best Actress in a Leading Role (Gar read more
Mogambo (1953) Twenty-one years after Clark Gable made the exotically set romantic triangle drama Red Dust, he made it again. Gable’s rubber plantation owner in Indochina moves to Africa to a job in exotic animal sales for Mogambo. Replace Jean Harlow‘s slutty prostitute with read more
Ava Gardner is TCM's Star of the Month for November and, as always, it's a thrill to watch her. She's a fiery actress, full of a strength and sexuality that never wavers. Her acting comes from her story, too, which is an incredible one. Grew up poor in North Carolina, moved to New read more
