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starring: Alun Armstrong, Marisa Berenson, Charlotte Cornwell, David Danns, Anne Dunkley
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301937115
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6301937112
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: April 01, 1992
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 38511
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 14, 1990
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Amazon.com:
Unjustly overlooked in Clint Eastwood's oeuvre, this critical examination of the hubris of machismo predated Unforgiven by just two years and meditated on similar themes. Eastwood plays a macho movie director, in Africa ostensibly to shoot a movie, but more pressingly (to his mind, anyway) to bag an elephant. The story is based loosely on the true story of John Huston's behavior while making The African Queen; Eastwood's Huston imitation (the character here is named Wilson) will no doubt prove distracting to some--he drawls out vowels to the point of breaking--but he captures both the arrogance of and the magnetic force behind the man. The film boasts splendid visuals by cinematographer Jack Green, and the final scene--and Eastwood's performance therein--is nearly heartbreaking. --David Kronke
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - An overlooked gem by a maverick film maker.
WHITE HUNTER BLACK HEART is perhaps Clint Eastwood's most underrated and overlooked film - made in 1990 and shadowed by Clint's Academy Award winning (and ultimate Western) Unforgiven.
Still, those who have enough sensibility will easily put this film as one of Clint's best, as he tells the story of maverick film maker John Wilson's obsession of hunting a big elephant while starting production of his big extravaganza to be shot in Africa during the 30's. As everybody knows, John Wilson ... Read More
Rating:  - Clint's heart of darkness
This film although not a commercial success for Clint, further explored his theme of the male psyche. Loosely based on an incident that occurred in the legendary director John Huston's life, this film proven to many that Eastwood was becoming a director of note. It is about one man's dark obsession to hunt down the oldest mammal in existence--the elephant. What occurs in the course of filming "The Africain Queen" is emotionally shattering to him and will lead an imprint on him forever. Eastwood in ... Read More
Rating: - Little known classic
This is loosely based on the making of The African Queen. Eastwood plays John Wilson (Huston) a cantankerous man who is more interested in big game hunting than shooting the film. In my view this is Clint Eastwoods greatest acting performance. He doesn't impersonate John Huston (maybe he couldn't) but he does capture something of Hustons distinctive drawl. To be clear on this if you want to watch Clint Eastwood being Clint Eastwood as in Dirty Harry, Good the bad and the Ugly etc (which I love as well) ... Read More
Rating: - A look into the heart of greed
There aren't too many movies that I think are even close to perfect. White hunter, black heart is one of them.
I just finished watching this film for the first time in a couple of years. It is visceral is an intellectual way -- Huh? -- meaning that one must use both head and heart to really got the most of it.
The film is wrapped around John Wilson, a fictional John Huston at the time he was filming "African Queen," also a favorite of mine, as seen by Peter (Peter Viertel). ... Read More
Rating: - Clint as the African King
Peter Viertel went to Africa with filmmaker John Huston to work on the script of THE AFRICAN QUEEN; from his experinces there he wrote the novel WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART. Here Clint Eastwood plays Houston, an egocentric man of action who becomes obsessed with killing a big-husked elephant - almost to the detriment of making THE AFRICAN QUEEN. Eastwood is uncanny (and at times forced and pretentious) as he tries to act and talk like the famous director, but in a way it's the perfect role for him: Huston ... Read More
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