Mogambo

Mogambo
Mogambo
	Original movie poster
Directed by	John Ford
Screenplay by	John Lee Mahin
Based on	Red Dust; by Wilson Collison
Produced by	Sam Zimbalist
Starring	Clark Gable; Ava Gardner; Grace Kelly
Cinematography	Robert Surtees; Freddie Young
Edited by	Frank Clarke
Music by	Robert Burns
Production; company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed by	Loew's, Inc.
Release date	October 9, 1953;
Running time	115 minutes
Countries	United States; United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$3.1 million
Box office	$8.3 million

Mogambo is a 1953 Technicolor adventure/romantic drama film directed by John Ford and starring Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly, and featuring Donald Sinden. Shot on location in Equatorial Africa, with a musical soundtrack consisting entirely of actual African tribal music recorded in the Congo, the film was adapted by John Lee Mahin from the play Red Dust by Wilson Collison. The picture is a remake of Red Dust (1932), which was set in Vietnam and also starred Gable in the same role.

Although the original trailer for the film explains that "Mogambo" means "the Greatest," in fact, the word "Mogambo" has no meaning at all. Producer Sam Zimbalist came up with the title by altering the name of the Mocambo, a famous Hollywood nightclub.

^ ^a ^b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

[Mannix-1] The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles, California: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

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