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The Ghost and the Darkness

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The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898.

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1996 · 1h 49m · Adventure · Thriller · History

TMDB 6.8/10 (1,167 votes)

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

Directed by Stephen Hopkins

Box office $39M worldwide

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Stephen HopkinsDirector

Michael Douglasas Charles Remington

Val Kilmeras Col. John Henry Patterson

Tom Wilkinsonas Sir Robert Beaumont