Mogambo (1953)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.6/10   

Director:

John Ford

Escritores:

Wilson Collison (play)
John Lee Mahin (screenplay)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

9 octubre 1953 (USA)

Género:

Drama | Aventura | Romance

Frase comercial:

Actually filmed by M-G-M on safari...amid authentic scenes of unrivalled savagery and awe-inspiring splendor!

Plot:

Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them...

Plot Keywords:

Safari | Gorilla | Anthropologist | Hunter | Kenya

Premios:

Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Another "safari" in the MGM tradition...Gardner steals the show...

Reparto

Clark Gable	...	Victor Marswell
Ava Gardner	...	Honey Bear Kelly
Grace Kelly	...	Linda Nordley
Donald Sinden	...	Donald Nordley
Philip Stainton	...	John Brown-Pryce
Eric Pohlmann	...	Leon Boltchak
Laurence Naismith	...	Skipper
Denis O'Dea	...	Father Josef
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Asa Etula	...	Young native girl (uncredited)

Dirigida por
John Ford

Créditos del guión
Wilson Collison		(play)
John Lee Mahin		(screenplay)

Producida por
Sam Zimbalist	....	producer

Fotografía por
Robert Surtees		(director of photography)
Freddie Young		(director of photography) (as F.A. Young)

Montaje por
Frank Clarke

Dirección artística
Alfred Junge

Departamento de maquillaje
Colin Garde	....	makeup artist
Maude Onslow	....	hairdresser (as Maud Onslow)

Dirección de producción
Roy Parkinson	....	unit manager

Ayudante de dirección
Cecil F. Ford	....	assistant director (as Cecil Ford)
Wingate Smith	....	assistant director
John Pallatt	....	assistant director: gorilla footage (uncredited)

Departamento de sonido
Amy Fisher	....	sound recordist (as A.S. Fisher)
A.W. Watkins	....	recording director
Hugh Strain	....	sound assistant (uncredited)

Efectos especiales
Tom Howard	....	special effects
Bert Monk	....	special effects (uncredited)

Especialistas
Bunny Allen	....	stunt double: Clark Gable (uncredited)

Cámara y Departamento Eléctrico
Cecil R. Cooney	....	camera operator (as Cecil Cooney)
Skeets Kelly	....	camera operator (as Graham Kelly)
Freddie Cooper	....	camera operator: gorilla footage (uncredited)
Stephen Dade	....	additional photographer (uncredited)
Jackson Drury	....	camera operator: gorilla footage (uncredited)
Kelvin Pike	....	clapper loader (uncredited)
Jack Whitehead	....	director of photography: gorilla footage (uncredited)
Doug Wolf	....	camera operator: gorilla footage (uncredited)

Departamento de vestuario
Helen Rose	....	costumes

Departamento de Edición
Joan Bridge	....	color consultant: Technicolor

Otros miembros del equipo
Angela Martelli	....	continuity
Bunny Allen	....	technical advisor (uncredited)
Frank Allen	....	researcher (uncredited)
Frank Allen	....	technical advisor (uncredited)
Yakima Canutt	....	director: gorilla footage (uncredited)
Eva Monley	....	production coordinator (uncredited)

Compañías Productores

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distribuidores

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1953) (USA) (theatrical)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (1954) (West Germany) (theatrical)
• Chapel Distribution (1997) (Australia) (theatrical) (35mm Technicolor & 16mm prints)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1980) (USA) (TV) (network premiere)
• Living Colour Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1994) (USA) (VHS)
• Warner Home Video (2006) (USA) (DVD)

Otras Compañías

• Bahaya Tribe of Tanganyika  group cast members
• Government Officials of Kenya Colony  grateful cooperation
• Government Officials of Tanganyika  grateful cooperation
• Government Officials of The Republic of French Equatorial Africa  grateful cooperation
• Government Officials of The Ugandan Protectorate  grateful cooperation
• M'Beti Tribe of French Equatorial Africa  group cast members
• Samburu Tribe of Kenya Colony  group cast members
• Wagenia Tribe of Belgian Congo  group cast members

También conocida como:

Mogambo (Argentina) (Spain) [es]

Duración:

115 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Clasificación:

UK:U | Portugal:M/12 | Argentina:Atp | West Germany:12 (f) | USA:Approved (PCA #16530) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15

Locaciones de Filmación:

Congo

Compañía:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivialidades:

Clark Gable was unimpressed by the script and was wary of reprising his Red Dust (1932) role after 21 years. He only agreed to make the movie after Across the Wide Missouri (1951) and Lone Star (1952) both flopped at the box office.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Honeybear is having dinner with Marswell, Brown-Pryce and Koltchak on her first night, it is visibly dark outside as Marswell had earlier told her dinner would be at 9:00. But when the servant comes running in calling for the men, it is clearly broad daylight as seen through the doorway.

Citas:

Linda Nordley: Doesn't a woman's reputation count for anything here?
Victor Marswell: Only if I'm pesonally interested.

Conexiones de Película:

References Dumbo (1941)

Banda de Sonido:

COMIN' THROUGH THE RYE

Another "safari" in the MGM tradition...Gardner steals the show...

Some stunning Technicolor photography of African footage and beautiful AVA GARDNER are the sole reasons for watching John Ford's MOGAMBO, a remake of "Red Dust" that starred Jean Harlow twenty years before this was made.

Harlow's co-star, CLARK GABLE, is back reprising his role as the great white hunter (what happened to STEWART GRANGER???), but Gable has mellowed quite a bit and looks a bit too tired to be the love interest of both AVA GARDNER and GRACE KELLY--which is what the plot really boils down to. However, he is more than able to tame both of them.

GRACE KELLY still has the affected way of reciting her lines in a prim and princess-like way and is the less interesting of the two females. AVA GARDNER, on the other hand, livens up the story with her sarcastic one-liners and her ability to size up any situation and call a spade a spade. She's honest, frank and completely charming in her own way and walks off with every scene she's in, fully deserving her sole Oscar nomination.

But if you're looking for a real good story, MOGAMBO is not it. It has all the realism of a picture postcard despite the fact that much of it was filmed in colorful Africa. But the use of stock footage is also apparent as are shots of Gable and others before a process screen.

Fans of the stars should enjoy this one, but be warned--it's not without some serious flaws, mostly due to a weak script.