Mogambo

Reminding me of Howard Hawks’ far superior Hatari! from a decade later, John Ford’s Mogambo is a story in Africa of a game hunter dealing with women. However, the central story is muddled (possibly because one particular role was cast with too large of a star and another too small) and there’s an artificiality in some key moments with animals that Hawks would later do so much better by actually having John Wayne and cast capture live animals. It’s easy to see how the idea of the film appeale...