Mogambo
| Mogambo | |
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Original movie poster | |
| Directed by | John Ford |
| Screenplay by | John Lee Mahin |
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| Produced by | Sam Zimbalist |
| Starring | Clark Gable Ava Gardner Grace Kelly |
| Cinematography | Robert Surtees Freddie Young |
| Edited by | Frank Clarke |
| Music by | Robert Burns |
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| Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
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Running time | 115 minutes |
| Countries | United States United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.1 million |
| Box office | $8.3 million |
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 colonial British East Africa, Tanganyika, Uganda Protectorate and French Congo, with a musical soundtrack consisting almost entirely of traditional music recorded in 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.
The original trailer for the film claimed that "Mogambo" meant "the greatest" but in fact, the word has no meaning at all. Producer Sam Zimbalist came up with the title by altering the name of the Mocambo, a famous Hollywood nightclub.