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
Henry Cele
Mahina
Kurt Egelhof
Indian Victim
Satchu Annamalai
Worker
Teddy Reddy
Worker
Raheem Khan
Worker
Jack Devnarain
Nervous Sikh Orderly
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
Stephen Hopkins
Director
William Goldman
Screenplay
A. Kitman Ho
Producer
Gale Anne Hurd
Producer
Paul B. Radin
Producer
Jerry Goldsmith
Original Music Composer
Vilmos Zsigmond
Director of Photography
Roger Bondelli
Editor
Robert Brown
Editor
Steve Mirkovich
Editor
John Henry Patterson
Novel
Steven Reuther
Executive Producer
Grant Hill
Co-Producer / Unit Production Manager
Mary Selway
Casting
Sarah Trevis
Casting
José Luis Escolar
First Assistant Director
David H. Venghaus Jr.
Second Assistant Director
Patrick Kinney
Second Assistant Director
Matt Rebenkoff
Second Assistant Director
Michael L. Games
Production Supervisor
Malcolm Stone
Art Direction
George Richardson
Supervising Art Director
Steve Saklad
Supervising Art Director
Hilton Rosemarin
Set Decoration
Simon Kaye
Sound Mixer
Tommy Staples
Boom Operator
Nikki Clapp
Script Supervisor
Javier Chinchilla
Second Second Assistant Director
Danny Baldwin
Stunt Coordinator
Paul Engelen
Key Makeup Artist
Suzanne Stokes-Munton
Key Hair Stylist
Sean Hubbert
Associate Editor
Dennis Seawright
First Assistant 'A' Camera
Lars Cox
Second Assistant 'A' Camera
Neal Norton
'A' Camera Operator
Joseph D. Urbanczyk
'B' Camera Operator
Carlos De Carvalho
First Assistant 'B' Camera
Bruce Stambler
Supervising Sound Editor
Stuart Wurtzel
Production Design
Ellen Mirojnick
Costume Design
Kevin De La Noy
Location Manager
Michael Dennison
Assistant Costume Designer
Leigh Bishop
Key Costumer
Philip McDonald
Property Master
Tom Lucas
Makeup Artist
Meg Speirs
Makeup Artist
Vera Mitchell
Hairstylist
Kenneth Hall
Supervising Music Editor
Sally Boldt
Music Editor
Donald O. Mitchell
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Rick Hart
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Frank A. Montaño
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Thomas J. O'Connell
ADR Mixer
Rick Canelli
ADR Recordist
Mary Jo Lang
Foley Mixer
Carolyn Tapp
Foley Recordist
Thom 'Coach' Ehle
Dolby Consultant
John Roesch
Foley Artist
Hilda Hodges
Foley Artist
Shawn Sykora
Foley Editor
Bob Beher
Foley Editor
Mark Pappas
Foley Editor
Joe Dorn
ADR Editor
Michael Dressel
Foley Supervisor
Becky Sullivan
Supervising ADR Editor
John Leveque
Dialogue Editor
Kimberly Lowe Voigt
Dialogue Editor
Marshall Winn
Dialogue Editor
Mildred Iatrou
Dialogue Editor
Jeff Cranford
Assistant Sound Editor
Paul Aulicino
Assistant Sound Editor
Dana LeBlanc Frankley
Assistant Sound Editor
Lance Brown
Sound Effects Editor
Glenn Hoskinson
Sound Effects Editor
Steve Mann
Sound Effects Editor
Steven F. Nelson
Sound Effects Editor
Kim Secrist
Sound Effects Editor
Donald L. Warner Jr.
Sound Effects Editor
Richard E. Yawn
Sound Effects Editor
Gary Mundheim
Sound Effects Editor
Gordon Ecker
Sound Effects Editor
Marge Rowland
Production Accountant
Guy Micheletti
Dolly Grip
Mike Miller
First Company Grip
Chris Corbould
Special Effects Supervisor
Rodney Armanino
Construction Coordinator
Alan Allinger
Construction Foreman
Stuart Fink
Unit Publicist
Frank Connor
Still Photographer
Barbara Harris
ADR Voice Casting
Josh McLaglen
Second Unit Director
Gabriel Beristain
Second Unit Director of Photography
Stuart Robertson
Visual Effects Supervisor
Tim McGovern
Visual Effects Supervisor
Mo Henry
Negative Cutter
Bob Kaiser
Color Timer
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 male 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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