Mogambo

Mogambo

115 mins | Drama, Adventure, Romance | Sept. 23, 1953

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.

Mogambo

115 mins | Drama, Adventure, Romance | Sept. 23, 1953

Mogambo
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Mogambo
Directors Angela Martelli, John Pellatt, Wingate Smith, Peter Price, Cecil F. Ford, John Ford
Writers Wilson Collison, John Lee Mahin

Cast

Clark Gable

as Victor Marswell

Ava Gardner

as Eloise Y. Kelly

Grace Kelly

as Linda Nordley

Donald Sinden

as Donald Nordley

Philip Stainton

as John Brown-Pryce

Eric Pohlmann

as Leon Boltchak

Laurence Naismith

as Skipper

Denis O'Dea

as Father Josef

Bruce Seton

as Wilson (uncredited)