FILMMMogambo1953

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How Long Is “Mogambo”?

Name: Mogambo
Genre: remake, Romance, action/adventure, filmed on location, adaptation
Released: 1953
Duration: 115 min
Cast: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Philip Stainton

1h 55m runtime

19531h 55mremake • Romance • action/adventure • filmed on location

Remake film with a runtime of 115 minutes, released in 1953. Presented in English.

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Runtime1h 55m

Minutes115

One SittingYes

With Break2h 7m

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The 1953 Clark Gable film Mogambo is a remake of Gable's 1932 seriocomic adventure Red Dust. Where the earlier film was lensed on the MGM backlot, Mogambo was shot on location in Africa by director John Ford. Gable is safari leader Victor Marswell, who plays "host" to stranded Eloise Y. Kelly (Ava Gardner, who is no better than she ought to be but is just right for our raffish hero -- the Gardner role was originally played along franker pre-Code lines by Jean Harlow). Anthropologist Donald Nordley (Donald Sinden) hires Victor to lead him into the deepest, darkest jungle. Along for the ride is Donald's wife, Linda (Grace Kelly), outwardly cool as a cucumber but secretly harboring a lust for Victor. Scorned, Kelly tries to kill Victor, but true-blue Eloise takes the blame for the shooting. Reportedly, Grace Kelly carried on an off-camera romance with Clark Gable, which ended when the differences in their ages proved insurmountable. Even so, it is the easy rapport between Gable and Ava Gardner which stole the show in Mogambo.

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Runtime1h 55m

Can Finish TonightYes

One SittingYes

With Break2h 7m

Movie Facts

Release Year1953

Runtime1h 55m

LanguageEnglish

Genresremake, Romance, action/adventure, filmed on location

DirectorJohn Ford

ProducerSam Zimbalist

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