THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS
MICHAEL DOUGLAS - VAL KILMER
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In 1896, engineer John Patterson (Val Kilmer) is hired to oversee the construction of a bridge at Tsavo, a vital part of the new trans-African railway. When the workers are slaughtered by two lions, whom the African workers believe to possess supernatural powers, Patterson calls in hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas). Together they set out to slay the fierce beasts, and complete work on the railway. Based on a true story.
Val Kilmer stars in The Ghost and the Darkness as Lt Col John Patterson, a 19th-century Irish engineer drafted by Britain's railroad bosses to build a trestle bridge over an African river, thus expanding the empire a tiny bit more. In Tsavo, Patterson is instantly hailed for killing a man-eating lion that had been making life hell for native workers. But morale sinks when two more unstoppable big cats devour more men and destroy the project. Along comes an, expatriate American hunter (Michael Douglas) to help Patterson face the almost preternatural powers of the two killers. The script by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is based on fact, though the film owes more to Steven Spielberg (specifically to Jaws) than history. There are also suggestive echoes of Kipling and Conrad in the material and characters, and there are hints of emotional complexity and psychological nuance that make one wish this could have been a great film instead of a merely fun one.
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