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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- One of the more successful attempts to bring Hemingway material to the screen, this story of a writer who has lost his intellectual and emotional bearings after enjoying early commercial success works splendidly under King's sure directorial hand, and is enacted with power and conviction by Peck.
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonShallow, colorful adaptation of one of Hemingway's best short stories. [08 May 1998, p.M]
- 70The New York TimesBosley CrowtherThe New York TimesBosley CrowtherThanks to a skillful combination of some sensational African hunting scenes, a musical score of rich suggestion and a vivid performance by Gregory Peck, Twentieth Century-Fox and Darryl F. Zanuck have concocted a handsome and generally absorbing film in The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
- 50Time OutTime OutFramed as a deathbed reminiscence, the film does tend to ramble, and seems particularly uneven in its mixture of back-projected wildlife footage, studio and location work, while Peck's weighty Harry Street remains resolutely aloof, to the point where he will not deign to expire.
- 50Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThere is some exquisite Technicolor photography by Leon Shamroy, but director Henry King never moves the action beyond respectful superficiality.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesChicago Sun-TimesThere's plenty of good travelogue in moving among Africa, Spain and the French Riviera. But director Henry King plods again. [18 Feb 1999, p.31]