The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
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Plot.
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
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Cast & Crew.
Michael Douglas
Charles Remington / Executive Producer
Val Kilmer
Col. John Henry Patterson
Tom Wilkinson
Sir Robert Beaumont
John Kani
Samuel
Emily Mortimer
Helena Patterson
Bernard Hill
Dr. David Hawthorne
Brian McCardie
Angus Starling
Om Puri
Abdullah
Jack Devnarain
Nervous Sikh Orderly
Henry Cele
Mahina
Kurt Egelhof
Indian Victim
Satchu Annamalai
Worker
Teddy Reddy
Worker
Raheem Khan
Worker
Glen Gabela
Orderly
Richard Nwamba
Orderly #2
Nick Lorentz
Photographer
Alex Ferns
Stockton
Kaycey Padayachee
Beaumont's Valet
Giles Masters
Beaumont's Clerk / Art Direction
Justin Gifford
Patterson's Son
Patrick Gifford
Patterson's Son
George Middlekoop
Station Master
Robert Brown
Editor
Jerry Goldsmith
Original Music Composer
Vilmos Zsigmond
Director of Photography
Steve Mirkovich
Editor
A. Kitman Ho
Producer
Stephen Hopkins
Director
William Goldman
Screenplay
Paul B. Radin
Producer
Gale Anne Hurd
Producer
Roger Bondelli
Editor
John Henry Patterson
Novel
Patrick Kinney
Second Assistant Director
Steven Reuther
Executive Producer
Steve Saklad
Supervising Art Director
Tommy Staples
Boom Operator
Lars Cox
Second Assistant 'A' Camera
José Luis Escolar
First Assistant Director
Simon Kaye
Sound Mixer
Nikki Clapp
Script Supervisor
Grant Hill
Unit Production Manager / Co-Producer
Matt Rebenkoff
Second Assistant Director
George Richardson
Supervising Art Director
David H. Venghaus Jr.
Second Assistant Director
Suzanne Stokes-Munton
Key Hair Stylist
Mary Selway
Casting
Sarah Trevis
Casting
Hilton Rosemarin
Set Decoration
Michael L. Games
Production Supervisor
Malcolm Stone
Art Direction
Danny Baldwin
Stunt Coordinator
Javier Chinchilla
Second Second Assistant Director
Paul Engelen
Key Makeup Artist
Sean Hubbert
Associate Editor
Carlos De Carvalho
First Assistant 'B' Camera
Dennis Seawright
First Assistant 'A' Camera
Neal Norton
'A' Camera Operator
Joseph D. Urbanczyk
'B' Camera Operator
Bruce Stambler
Supervising Sound Editor
Stuart Wurtzel
Production Design
Kevin De La Noy
Location Manager
Michael Dennison
Assistant Costume Designer
Frank A. Montaño
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Mary Jo Lang
Foley Mixer
Leigh Bishop
Key Costumer
Ellen Mirojnick
Costume Design
Thom 'Coach' Ehle
Dolby Consultant
John Roesch
Foley Artist
Philip McDonald
Property Master
Sally Boldt
Music Editor
Rick Hart
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Joe Dorn
ADR Editor
Marshall Winn
Dialogue Editor
Meg Speirs
Makeup Artist
Shawn Sykora
Foley Editor
Becky Sullivan
Supervising ADR Editor
Carolyn Tapp
Foley Recordist
Mark Pappas
Foley Editor
Tom Lucas
Makeup Artist
Vera Mitchell
Hairstylist
Donald O. Mitchell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Thomas J. O'Connell
ADR Mixer
Kenneth Hall
Supervising Music Editor
Rick Canelli
ADR Recordist
Mildred Iatrou
Dialogue Editor
Paul Aulicino
Assistant Sound Editor
Gabriel Beristain
Second Unit Director of Photography
Mike Miller
First Company Grip
Kimberly Lowe Voigt
Dialogue Editor
Jeff Cranford
Assistant Sound Editor
Dana LeBlanc Frankley
Assistant Sound Editor
Alan Allinger
Construction Foreman
Glenn Hoskinson
Sound Effects Editor
Rodney Armanino
Construction Coordinator
Stuart Fink
Unit Publicist
Michael Dressel
Foley Supervisor
Hilda Hodges
Foley Artist
Bob Beher
Foley Editor
John Leveque
Dialogue Editor
Steve Mann
Sound Effects Editor
Guy Micheletti
Dolly Grip
Josh McLaglen
Second Unit Director
Richard E. Yawn
Sound Effects Editor
Frank Connor
Still Photographer
Barbara Harris
ADR Voice Casting
Mo Henry
Negative Cutter
Gary Mundheim
Sound Effects Editor
Marge Rowland
Production Accountant
Stuart Robertson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Donald L. Warner Jr.
Sound Effects Editor
Gordon Ecker
Sound Effects Editor
Lance Brown
Sound Effects Editor
Tim McGovern
Visual Effects Supervisor
Chris Corbould
Special Effects Supervisor
Steven F. Nelson
Sound Effects Editor
Bob Kaiser
Color Timer
Kim Secrist
Sound Effects Editor
Jamie Christopher
Second Assistant Director
Ryan Berg
Visual Effects Coordinator
Dan Grace
Key Costumer
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 11, 1996
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 49m
Content RatingR
Budget$50,000,000
Box Office$38,619,405
Filming LocationsSouth Africa
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
africa
lion
bridge
animal attack
based on a true story
lion attack
colonialism
swahili
london england
based on novel or book
hunter
british army
mysticism
railroad construction
1890's
Wiki.
The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway East Africa in 1898.
The film received mixed reviews and grossed $87 million against a production budget of $55 million. It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler.
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