The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
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.
- Released
- 1996-10-11
- Genres
- Adventure, Thriller, History
- Runtime
- 109 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Stephen Hopkins, William Goldman
- TMDB rating
- 6.9/10 from 1217 votes
Cast
- Michael Douglas as Charles Remington
- Val Kilmer as Col. John Henry Patterson
- Tom Wilkinson as Sir Robert Beaumont
- John Kani as Samuel
- Emily Mortimer as Helena Patterson
- Bernard Hill as Dr. David Hawthorne
- Brian McCardie as Angus Starling
- Om Puri as Abdullah
- Jack Devnarain as Nervous Sikh Orderly
- Henry Cele as Mahina
- Kurt Egelhof as Indian Victim
- Satchu Annamalai as Worker