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Synopsis: Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.
Director(s): John Ford
Production: MGM
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
APPROVED
Year:
1953
116 min
465 Views


your wife ever since she's been here.

She's been sport enough

to hold him off...

...and not tell you

to not spoil your fun.

Tonight he got her here on the pretext...

Well, he was pretty drunk.

So when I came tearing over here to help,

he was getting pretty bad...

...so she shot him,

as any decent woman would do.

- We're going, darling.

- Beat it.

Come on there. Get going.

If she hadn't I'd have done it myself.

Are you going to stand there

and bleed to death?

It's just a piece of skin.

Don't you go losing your head.

- You've done well up to now.

- Losing my head! Fine thing.

Stop talking

and put a bandage on this.

Then stop yelling at me.

Too bad you didn't teach her

to shoot a little straighter.

Africa and gorillas. Lions.

The only lions I ever want to see again

are the two in front of the Public Library.

- We're ready to shove off now.

- Darling.

- You can get into the boat now.

- Thank you, Brownie.

Are you sure you're ready to go?

Quite sure.

Now that you're leaving,

how about saying goodbye?

Okay. Goodbye.

I'm going to stay up there for a while...

...try and pick up a couple of baby

gorillas. Make the trip pay for itself.

- How about you sticking around?

- What for?

- I thought that maybe...

- No.

Nobody is gonna wring me out

and hang me up to dry again.

How about it?

As soon as I'm through up there...

...we could head back

and stop by Father Josef's.

Would you like that?

You mean you're gonna make

an honest woman out of me?

- It suits me, Kelly.

- It suits you?

Listen, you and your

quick-change acts...

...aren't hanging blossoms over me...

...because you feel the cold weather

coming on. No, thanks.

I'll go back where I can be honest

without getting kicked around.

I'll see you.

- What?

- Take good care of her!

I can't hear you.

I said, take good care of her!

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John Lee Mahin

John Lee Mahin (August 23, 1902, Evanston, Illinois – April 18, 1984, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter and producer of films who was active in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was known as the favorite writer of Clark Gable and Victor Fleming. In the words of one profile, he had "a flair for rousing adventure material, and at the same time he wrote some of the raciest and most sophisticated sexual comedies of that period." more…

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