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Ernest Hemingway (story)
Seymour Bennett (adaptation) ...
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Release Date:
17 September 1947 (France) more
Tagline:
Peck...Bennett...Hemingway...only all three together could create this electric love story...with a vengeance! (oiginal poster)
Plot:
Robert Wilson leads safaris on the Kenyan savannah. On this occasion, he takes Mr. and Mrs. Macomber out to chase buffalo... more | add synopsis
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One of the more successful attempts to film a Hemingway story... more (5 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Gregory Peck | ... | Robert Wilson |
 | Joan Bennett | ... | Margaret Macomber |
| Robert Preston | ... | Francis Macomber |
| Reginald Denny | ... | Police Inspector |
| Jean Gillie | ... | Aimee |
| Carl Harbord | ... | Coroner |
| Earl Smith | ... | Kongoni |
| Frederick Worlock | ... | Clerk |
| Vernon Downing | ... | Reporter Logan |
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Also Known As:
The Great White Hunter (USA) (reissue title)
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber (USA) (working title)
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89 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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USA:Approved (PCA #11941) | West Germany:16 (nf) | Finland:K-16
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For the African scenes, Reginald Denny invented the first radio-controlled model airplane and, with Osmond Borradaile, put a camera on board in 1946. more
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Featured in O ziliarogatos (1956) more
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THE MACOMBER AFFAIR has to be rated a success for the mere fact that it finally brings a Hemingway story to the screen pretty much intact and the way he wrote it. GREGORY PECK may not be the perfect choice to play the guide escorting a quarrelsome JOAN BENNETT and ROBERT PRESTON on a safari, but he acquits himself well enough in the role.
I found it a lot more satisfying than the later SNOWS OF KILIMINJARO in which Peck again was cast in the lead as a Hemingway white hunter in Africa. Although that film had the advantage of Technicolor and more expensive trappings, THE MACOMBER AFFAIR achieves more of an edge by being photographed in somber B&W, even though some of the stock footage and backgrounds are obviously studio shots.
Bennett is fascinating as the woman full of scorn for her husband and gradually showing her interest in Peck while Preston's resentment begins to turn paranoid. Miklos Rozsa's score gives it a film noir feeling despite the jungle setting--and it becomes a war of nerves before the satisfying conclusion.
Well worth watching for some interesting performances.