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Screenplay William Goldman
Director Stephen Hopkins

The Ghost and the Darkness

Tagline: Prey For The Hunters

Release Date: 1996-10-11

Duration: 109 minutes

Synopsis

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

Casting

  • Val Kilmer
    Col. John Henry Patterson
  • Michael Douglas
    Charles Remington
  • John Kani
    Samuel
  • Emily Mortimer
    Helena Patterson
  • Alex Ferns
    Stockton
  • Bernard Hill
    Dr. David Hawthorne
  • Om Puri
    Abdullah
  • Tom Wilkinson
    Sir Robert Beaumont
  • Henry Cele
    Mahina
  • Brian McCardie
    Angus Starling