MOVIE · 1996
The Ghost and the Darkness
ActionAdventureDramaThriller110 min
Engineer John Henry Patterson arrives in Tsavo, Kenya, in 1898 to get a railway bridge project back on schedule, only to find the camp rattled by a string of brutal lion attacks. Val Kilmer is Patterson, a builder pulled into a mounting crisis as workers begin disappearing and fear spreads through the site. When the killings continue, Michael Douglas’s veteran hunter Charles Remington is brought in to track the pair of man-eating lions. Drawing on the story of the Tsavo attacks, the film ties its hunt to the pressures of colonial railroad construction in East Africa.
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