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The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman , is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters , a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo , Kenya during the building of the ...
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At the heart of the story is Lt. Colonel John Henry Patterson (played in the film by Val Kilmer), who in 1898 was sent to Africa on behalf of the British government to oversee the construction of an essential railway bridge in the Tsavo region of Kenya, Africa. The building project was a massive operation, employing thousands of workers (most of th...
With the workers threatening to cease work, and the British government breathing down his neck, Lt. Patterson had to get crafty. One of his most well-known attempts at capturing these beasts is wonderfully recreated in the film, in which Patterson transforms an abandoned railway cart into a box trap. Three Indians workers (who apparently volunteere...
With the lions neutralized, work on the railway was soon completed. Soon after, Patterson returned to his home in London with the bodies of the two lions in his possession, and recounted the events in his semi-autobiographical book The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, which William Goldman drew heavily from when writing The Ghost and the Darkness. Despite the ...
Sep 12, 2023 · Directed by the seasoned Stephen Hopkins, ‘The Ghost and the Darkness’ is an adventure thriller film that paints a vivid picture of Africa’s vast terrains. In the heart of Tsavo, Kenya, during the late 19th century, a railway construction crew is thrown into a whirlwind of fear and uncertainty.
Jun 6, 2022 · The lions returned that evening, but instead of coming into the bait, they circled Patterson's position for nearly two hours, growling in the darkness. In the movie, Kilmer's character is knocked from the platform by a wayward owl before he kills the lion.
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The Ghost and the Darkness ★★½ 1996 (R) Based on the true story of two maneating lions who killed 130 people and nearly derailed the building of the East African railroad in 1896. Engineer John Patterson (Kilmer) is sent to build a bridge over the Tsavo river, but as African liaison Samuel (Kani) informs him, Tsavo prophetically means ...
Nov 30, 2014 · The American hunter Remington, played by Michael Douglas, who appears in The Ghost and The Darkness is a pure invention - in real-life our Irish hero did it all himself.
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Aug 1, 2020 · The infamous tale of rampage narrated here is based on actual facts and true events – the most incredible parts of the story are true and have been documented, as such, in the annals of history. It concerns “The Tsavo Man-Eaters” – a pair of notorious, man-eating lions responsible for the deaths of a large number of construction workers ...
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