Mogambo
Screening on Film
Directed by John Ford.
With Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly.
US, 1953, 35mm, color, 115 min.
With Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly.
US, 1953, 35mm, color, 115 min.
The first revival in decades of one of Ford’s most star-rich, once-popular films, in which, on a safari in French Equatorial Africa, Clark Gable stands between the lusty bad woman (Ava Gardner) and the luscious good one (Grace Kelly). There is old-fashioned Hollywood fun here, as the director was off on a holiday for this on-location assignment. Ford: "I liked the script, and I’d never been to that part of Africa."
