Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

many motifs to see this film. first, for the African images. for the theme. for the cast. and, sure, for Ava Gardner. she is the axis of this story of adventure, love and self definition. she is the force who gives to a film like many others with the same location and the same variation of story , seduction, splendid nuances, great senses of the choice who seems be impossible. Clark Gable does his exemplar work. Grace Kelly is the snow flake , fragile, complex and almost a graceful silhouette , perfect for the Hitchcock universe but, in this case, only a precious jewel.

Mogambo (1953)Clark Gable plays Vic Marswell, an owner of a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise "Honey Bear" Kelly (played by Eva Gardner) is a globe trotting party girl who was stood-up by a visiting guest. It doesn't take long before they hit it off. Although Honey Bear is a city slicker, she eventually learns to like the various animals being sent to zoos. Then a young couple, Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for a gorilla documentary safari. Donald Nordley has an adverse reaction to some tsetse fly shots that he had, and drops into a fever. While Vic helps nursing him back to health, Linda Nordley (played by beautiful Grace Kelly) and Vic fall in love with each other to the disappointment of Honey Bear, who is sort of the third wheel.If this movie sounds familiar, it's because it is a remake of the 1935 movie, "Red Dust" that Clark Gable also starred in. This remake was still very well done. It was directed by John Ford and filmed in color on location in many parts of Africa. This was another movie that was part of the "Clark Gable - The Signature Collection" box set. After seeing the younger Gable version, it's kind of cool to see him as the older, 52 year old, but still very handsome and built like a brick outhouse version.

after so many years, it seems be testimony about a gorgeous Hollywood age. in fact, it is a splendid film who use African landscapes as scene for a not bad story. sure, Gable is too old for his role and Grace Kelly too delicate, the story is not impeccable but Ava Gardner performance is really admirable. a smart film, like a duel between great actors and a decent script. atmosphere, animals, gallery of nuances explored with grace and talent, humor oasis and a subtle feeling about clash of cultures and ways to discover life. a romance but a special one. maybe for force of Gardner acting. or for the impeccable performance of Kelly but, in same measure, for the science of Gable to use the possibilities of his role.

Western director John Ford was more or less asleep at the wheel on this jungle epic, with the stars given a tepid script rife with fifties clichés about the roles men and women play in the moral scheme of things. Gable had done the same role some 20 years earlier in the hugely entertaining, zippy precode Red Dust with sassy Jean Harlow and salty Mary Astor, but Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner, while holding their own in the beauty department, are given next to nothing to work with, except perhaps for Ava's tussle in the mud with a baby elephant. Gable goes through the motions of being The Great White Hunter with his customary professionalism, but looks fairly bored. The idea of hunting down and killing gorillas is certainly as outmoded today as the romantic clichés--but there is some excellent footage of native African dances and some nice scenery,though nothing one can't see to more advantage in a National Geographicspecial. Recommended only for star fans as Saturday matinée material.