Mogambo
1953 American romantic drama film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 from the play Red Dust by Wilson Collison. The picture is a remake of Red Dust (1932), which was set in Vietnam and also starred Gable in the same role.
Mogambo | |
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Directed by | John Ford |
Screenplay by | John Lee Mahin |
Based on | Red Dust by Wilson Collison |
Produced by | Sam Zimbalist |
Starring | Clark Gable Ava Gardner Grace Kelly |
Cinematography | Robert Surtees Freddie Young |
Edited by | Frank Clarke |
Music by | Robert Burns |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
Countries | United States United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $3.1 million[1] |
Box office | $8.3 million[1] |
Although the original trailer for the film explains that "Mogambo" means "the Greatest," in fact, the word "Mogambo" has no meaning at all. Producer Sam Zimbalist came up with the title by altering the name of the Mocambo, a famous Hollywood nightclub.