Mogambo (1953)
- Starring:
- Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, (more)
- Director(s):
- John Ford
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Mogambo
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
Complete Cast of Mogambo
- Clark Gable - Victor Marswell
- Grace Kelly - Linda Nordley
- Philip Stainton - John Brown Pryce
- Laurence Naismith - Skipper
- Asa Etula - Young Native Girl
- Ava Gardner - Eloise Y. Kelly
- Donald Sinden - Donald Nordley
- Eric Pohlmann - Leon Boltchak
- Denis O'Dea - Father Josef
- Director(s):
- John Ford
- Writer(s):
- John Lee Mahin
- Producer(s):
- Sam Zimbalist
- Categories:
- Romance, Action / Adventure
- 1953 - Hollywood Foreign Press Association - Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
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