The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) on Netflix
Approved19521h 54mAdventureDramaRomance
On safari in Africa, writer Harry Street lies outside his tent with an infected wound. Helen, his companion, tends him and hunts for the camp. In his fever he looks back.
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Plot summary
Harry Street is a writer laid up on safari in Africa, gravely ill after a thorn prick left him with a severely infected wound. Helen, who is with him, cares for him and shoots game for the camp. Unable to move, he turns over his life in an often delirious state. He remembers Cynthia Green, whom he met in Paris among the Lost Generation, and the travels and writing he was passionate about. He also recalls the sale of his first novel, when he chose a safari in Africa over a nicer home. Cynthia, pregnant, weighs how to tell him her news. Kilimanjaro, a snow-covered mountain, rises over the safari, and near its western summit lies the frozen carcass of a leopard whose purpose no one has explained.
Cast
- Ava Norringas Beatrice
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- Amanda Ambroseas Pianist (uncredited)
- Nina Borgetas Girl (uncredited)
- Maurice Brierreas Waiter (uncredited)
- Arthur Brunneras Accordion Player (uncredited)
- Charles Brunneras Guest (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
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- Humphrey Bogart, Richard Conte, Marlon Brando and Dale Robertson were all reported to be under consideration for the male lead of the film.
- While filming a scene in which he carried Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck wrenched his knee on April 8, 1952, forcing a ten-day production postponement, and co-star Hildegard Knef came down with influenza during the shoot.
- The hyena heard in the film was voiced by director Henry King from behind the camera; Ernest Hemingway, writing in Look magazine in 1954, called that hyena the best performer in the picture and nicknamed it The Snows of Zanuck.
- The film's bullfight sequences were not newly shot; they were archive footage lifted from Twentieth Century-Fox's own 1941 film Blood and Sand.
- For the hyena encounter sequence the production turned to circus animal trainer Pat Anthony, who replaced Gregory Peck as his stand-in for the scene.
