Mogambo (1953)
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82% of critics liked it
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58% of users liked it
(2,761 ratings)
The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable's 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was lensed on the MGM backlot, Mogambo was shot on location in Africa by director John Ford. Gable is safari leader Victor Marswell, who plays "host" to stranded Eloise… More The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable's 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was lensed on the MGM backlot, Mogambo was shot on location in Africa by director John Ford. Gable is safari leader Victor Marswell, who plays "host" to stranded Eloise Y. Kelly (Ava Gardner, who is no better than she ought to be but is just right for our raffish hero -- the Gardner role was originally played along franker pre-Code lines by Jean Harlow). Anthropologist Donald Nordley (Donald Sinden) hires Victor to lead him into the deepest, darkest jungle. Along for the ride is Donald's wife, Linda (Grace Kelly), outwardly cool as a cucumber but secretly harboring a lust for Victor. Scorned, Kelly tries to kill Victor, but true-blue Eloise takes the blame for the shooting. Reportedly, Grace Kelly carried on an off-camera romance with Clark Gable, which ended when the differences in their ages proved insurmountable. Even so, it is the easy rapport between Gable and Ava Gardner which stole the show in Mogambo. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Ford
- Written By
- Wilson Collison, John Lee Mahin
- Genres
- Drama, Action & Adventure, Romance, Classics
- In Theaters
- Oct 9, 1953 Wide
- On DVD
- Jun 20, 2006
- Studio
- MGM Home Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
Mogambo is a silly, laid-back Hollywood romance with an exotic setting, but it's nonetheless quite affecting and satisfying.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Clark Gable reprises his role from Fleming's 1932 adventure in this colorful and enjoyable remake by John Ford, featuring great performances by Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
staid, ridiculous
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David Cornelius, DVDTalk.com
Too long and too ridiculous.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The easy rapport between Gable and Ava becomes the film's main selling point.
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Cast
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Clark Gable
as Victor Marswell
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Ava Gardner
as Eloise Y. Kelly
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Grace Kelly
as Linda Nordley
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Donald Sinden
as Donald Nordley
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Eric Pohlmann
as Leon Boltchak
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Philip Stainton
as John Brown Pryce
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Laurence Naismith
as Skipper
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Denis O'Dea
as Father Josef
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Asa Etula
as Young Native Girl
