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The Ghost and the Darkness
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
1996 · Directed by Stephen Hopkins · 109 min · Adventure · Thriller · History · 15 frames
Tagline
Prey For The Hunters
Crew
- Screenplay: William Goldman
- Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
- Edited by: Steve Mirkovich, Robert Brown, Roger Bondelli
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Production design: Stuart Wurtzel
- Produced by: Paul B. Radin, Gale Anne Hurd, A. Kitman Ho
Cast
- Michael Douglas as Charles Remington
- Val Kilmer as Col. John Henry Patterson
- Tom Wilkinson as Sir Robert Beaumont
- John Kani as Samuel
- Emily Mortimer as Helena Patterson
- Bernard Hill as Dr. David Hawthorne
- Brian McCardie as Angus Starling
- Om Puri as Abdullah
- Jack Devnarain as Nervous Sikh Orderly
- Henry Cele as Mahina
Production
- Country: Germany, United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Paramount Pictures, Douglas/Reuther Productions, Bernina Film, Mont Blanc Entertainment GmbH
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Box office: $38,619,405
- Themes: london, england, based on novel or book, hunter, africa, lion, animal attack, bridge, british army, based on true story, lion attack
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