Mogambo Page #6

Yes?

I've been the champion of female

Airedales and I'd like to apologize.

What on earth for?

I assure you, there's nothing...

I'm feeling a great deal better

about life today.

So let's level, shall we?

I'm not blaming you by apologizing.

I'd just like to tell you

that I know how it is with you and Vic.

We girls are pretty smart

about those things, aren't we?

Aren't you being presumptuous

in assuming any...

Please, honey,

don't let me sit here with egg on my face.

I came here to be your friend.

The only way I know how

is to tell you that I understand.

It can happen.

He's an attractive burglar...

Really, if you'll excuse me,

I must finish my packing.

All right. I'll get out.

But keep your head, will you?

You're sitting pretty.

You're a lovely, attractive woman.

You're married to a wonderful man.

Is it possible that all of this advice...

...is based on the fact

that you know Mr. Marswell...

...just a little more intimately

than I do?

Gosh, you are stuck, aren't you?

- Once and for all...

- You're jealous.

Shouldn't you examine

your own emotions in that light?

Don't worry about me.

I could be pea green with jealousy...

...and not hacked up any more

than I am already.

It's you we want to worry about.

This is no Sir Galahad

who loves from afar.

- This is a two-legged boa constrictor.

- I think you'd better leave.

All right, but remember,

I came here to be your friend.

For your sake.

And I'm keeping the offer open.

It'll be rugged, but I'll keep it open.

Go in the boat with Brownie.

I'll take Mrs. Nordley in the lead boat.

But wouldn't it be better if...?

- Do you mind, darling?

- Not at all.

That's just in case of emergency.

Are the men of this tribe

also polygamists like Muntala?

Only those who can afford

more than one wife.

It seems unfair to take them away

from their families.

You mean the men are taking a chance?

I'm quite sure that's what I mean.

No. The natives have

all sorts of devices...

...to prevent their women

from being stolen.

In most tribes

there's a pre-marriage ordeal...

...that guarantees fidelity.

Really? What's that, pray?

Let's see if I can...

Linda, look.

Isn't he beautiful?

Perfect specimen.

He's clean too.

Just had his Saturday night bath.

Look!

Reminds me of somebody I know.

You were saying about this device

for guaranteed fidelity...

Why wouldn't it pass

in the civilized world?

Primarily because you women

would probably vote it down.

But why?

Because it's a means whereby a woman

is rendered incapable of being unfaithful.

- I think I understand.

- Sorry to be so blunt about it.

No. It was my denseness.

I should have realized.

Brother, I can take your Cook's tour

around the zoo...

...but when we get on this mental

striptease...

...and hide behind

Louisa May Alcott...

...I want a powder.

Brownie. Watch it. Hippo.

Kenya, heart of the Samburu.

I'm terribly keen on seeing those chaps.

There doesn't appear

to be a committee to welcome us.

Brownie, looks like this is

where I leave you.

I'm glad somebody's glum about it.

It's Vic. Vic Marswell.

Get your party out of here fast.

- What happened?

- Caught them ivory poaching.

When the corporal was taking

down the colors last night...

...they came at us.

- Where are the rest of your men?

- Got two of them out last night.

It'll take several days

before police reserves arrive.

Get your party out quick.

These two... Good boys.

Don't bother about me.

I've had it.

There are gorillas. Three or four

families in the next valley.

- How do you know they'll stay?

- I don't. These people are great trackers.

We'll start out first thing in the morning.

Thanks.

- Good evening.

- Hi, Brownie.

Sit down and join the picnic.

You know me well enough now

to tell me about your scars?

Nothing new, Brownie.

Happens to lots of people.

We'd just been married three weeks

when Johnny had to sail...

...and two months later I get a telegraph

from the War Department...

...telling me that he and his little P-51...

You know, he had "Honey Bear"

painted on the nose.

Anyway, they both blew up

in a million pieces somewhere over Berlin.

You know, as short as it lasted,

it was like being blessed for a lifetime.

So you hit the high spots

and the gay beaches trying to forget him?

Yeah. Great strength of character.

But you'd know it if you met it again.

I say, you'd know it

if you met it again.

Yes, Brownie, I'd know it.

- Look.

- Flamingos.

- Gorillas.

- What?

Gorilla country.

It's nice up here, isn't it? High.

Yes, it is nice, for a change.

I don't like mosquito netting.

It separates people, doesn't it?

Donald, please.

I've got to fix these things.

Perhaps it's altitude,

but I feel very light-headed.

- Don't you feel the least bit light-headed?

- Don't, Donald, please.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, darling. It's nothing.

It's just that I'm terribly tired.

That long climb today. I don't know...

Come now, we've got a very

early start in the morning.

I don't know if I'll quite feel up to it.

Donald, please turn that light off.

It's shining straight in my eyes.

Right now.

Lin, darling.

You still my girl?

Don't be so childish.

That's good enough for me.

Why don't you come along?

You might find gorillas interesting.

Gorillas?

A month ago,

I was buying a bra at Macy's.

Now I'm studying gorillas yet.

No, thank you.

I'll stick around and help Muntala cook.

What did he say?

He says you can't even cook.

Gorilla. Lots of them.

- Is the battery ready?

- Yeah.

I didn't know they could climb trees.

Only the young ones do.

Donald, camera.

Ready to photograph a bull gorilla?

Why, yes. Wonderful.

Brownie, cover us.

Don't move back.

Don't budge an inch.

Hold still.

He's trying to bluff us.

Bring your camera up slowly.

- Brownie.

- What, chief?

- Watch the young bull.

- Got him.

There's the one

we want to pick up tomorrow.

That's the last we'll see of them today.

The boys can keep track of them tonight,

and we'll bring up the nets tomorrow.

This is the film and one of the reels.

Will you take them back

and keep them somewhere cool?

- Precious stuff.

- Of course.

Think you got anything

with that camera?

I hope so,

but I must admit I was pretty scared.

- Frightened to death.

- You were scared?

I'll never forget the first one I saw.

- Linda was all right too.

- You hear that, darling?

They're a strange beast, gorilla.

You can bluff them sometimes,

and then sometimes...

We'll see tomorrow, when we net them.

Is it all right for me to stay up overnight

and get some night sounds?

Of course. It's not going to be

very comfortable for Linda, though.

I don't exactly want to get rid of you,

but you don't mind, do you?

No, of course not, Donald.

You stay up here with Donald.

Do you mind?

- Just as you say.

- Keep whatever boys you want.

- Boltchak?

- No.

I like my comforts in life too.

Darling.

If you're looking for Vic...

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