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starring: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Philip Staintondirected by: John Ford
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301971553
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6301971558
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: June 30, 1994
Sales Rank: 6066
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: October 09, 1953
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This remake of the 1932 Red Dust is famous for using the very same romantic leading man--21 years after the fact. But when that leading man is Clark Gable, what's a little gray hair in the temples? Gable was certainly still the great strutting rooster of American movies in 1953, when Mogambo made him a safari guide juggling two much younger women. First up is good-time girl Ava Gardner, who's game for a little harmless romp with Gable after she gets stood up by a playboy in the African jungle. But when Grace Kelly--the proper wife of a visiting anthropologist (Donald Sinden)--arrives on the scene, a new affair begins. The location shooting is much in the vein of King Solomon's Mines, although the story is much more intimate. This feels like a bit of a holiday for Hollywood's top director, John Ford, and not one of his most committed pictures. Still, Ford's unparalleled eye for backlit exteriors and for the way people move around in rooms is on display, even when the script wobbles. People always joke about Gable being too old for this movie, but that doesn't take into account his durable movie-star appeal--he certainly looks every inch the Hemingwayesque hunter, and it's not that big a stretch to imagine Gardner or Kelly in the clinches with him. Indeed, he and Grace Kelly had an offscreen affair during shooting, graying temples or not. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - It's Ava Gardner's World...and Everyone Else Just Lives in It
Ava Gardner could hardly be considered anyone's second choice, but this is what director John Ford and screenwriter John Lee Mahin would have you believe in this overripe 1952 safari melodrama. Yet, she is the primary reason why this film is still worth a look 56 years later. Far more intuitively than Angelina Jolie these days, Gardner epitomized a primal sensuality and a hidden vulnerability, the combination of which was intoxicating in her prime. Ford captures this, as well as her dark beauty and ... Read More
Rating:  - Magam, Bo??
the magnificent Ava Gardner, with Gable and Kelly along for the ride, make this a delight.....not exactly Out of Africa in scope or style, it is 50's moviemaking at its best.....great Africa sights, an ok story, and the fabulous Ava will provide any but the dullest with memorable fun.......can't be helped deficit is lack of commentary tracks by stars and directors......strongly recommended to anyone over 18........
Rating: - Mogambo DVD
I saw this one in the theater when I was a little girl. I wasn't always sure what was happening (between the adults) but now that I do I can watch this one, easily, once a month. The story and the scenery in Africa are unsurpassed. The actors need no introduction to most viewers and the young ones who don't know them are in for a treat. This movie would be a fine, "How do you do".
Rating: - Mogambo
Received order as expected in a timely manner...Good movie if your a Clark Gable Fan...
Rating:  - 50s melodramatic cheese
Having rented this movie only for Ava Gardner and not for the plot, I knew it was going to be cheesy from the beginning. It's a non-musical produced by MGM, what can one expect? This is one of those old kinds of movies where the character development takes a backseat to the *breathtaking* scenery and atmosphere. Actually the scenery isn't so breathtaking (maybe in 1953 this would have blown your socks off, but come on, those of us in 2007 are much more world weary now). As usual, Ava and Grace flounce ... Read More
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