Mogambo poster
Director John Ford
Screenplay John Lee Mahin

Mogambo

Tagline: Flaming love found in the savage heart of the jungle!

Release Date: 1953-09-23

Duration: 115 minutes

Synopsis

Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.

Casting

  • Ava Gardner
    Eloise Y. Kelly
  • Grace Kelly
    Linda Nordley
  • Laurence Naismith
    Skipper
  • Donald Sinden
    Donald Nordley
  • Clark Gable
    Victor Marswell
  • Denis O'Dea
    Father Josef
  • Eric Pohlmann
    Leon Boltchak
  • Philip Stainton
    John Brown-Pryce
  • Bruce Seton
    Wilson (uncredited)