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Samburu were filmed in front of Mount Sabachi near Archer's Post and Isiolo. Interiors were shot at the MGM-British Studios, in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England. Frank Allen and his wife were guides during the six week-safari that constituted location filming. The shoot was difficult.
Mogambo: Directed by John Ford. With Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden. On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
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- Adventure, Drama, Romance
- John Ford
- 1953-10-09
Mogambo is a 1953 Technicolor adventure/romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly, and featuring Donald Sinden. Shot on location in Equatorial Africa, with a musical soundtrack consisting entirely of actual African tribal music recorded in the Congo, the film was adapted by John Lee Mahin ...
Mogambo: Directed by John Ford. With Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden. On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
Whereas the original film takes place in Indochina and was shot at MGM studios, much of the remake was shot on location in Africa. Mogambo was noted for the performances of Gardner and Kelly, both of whom received Academy Award nominations.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Essentially a remake of the 1932 film Red Dust (also starring Clark Gable) with the locale changed from Indochina to the African Congo, Mogambo was filmed over four months on location across 10,000 miles of largely unexplored territory in Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, and French Equatorial Africa, much of it never photographed before.
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On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
