
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Rating: 6.8/10
Duration: 109 min
Year: 1996
Genres: Adventure, Thriller, History
Director(s): Stephen Hopkins
Description:
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.
Cast
- Emily Mortimer as Helena Patterson
- Tom Wilkinson as Sir Robert Beaumont
- Val Kilmer as Col. John Henry Patterson
- Michael Douglas as Charles Remington
- Om Puri as Abdullah
- Bernard Hill as Dr. David Hawthorne
- Brian McCardie as Angus Starling
- John Kani as Samuel
- Jack Devnarain as Nervous Sikh Orderly
- Henry Cele as Mahina
- Kurt Egelhof as Indian Victim
- Satchu Annamalai as Worker
- Teddy Reddy as Worker
- Raheem Khan as Worker
- Glen Gabela as Orderly