Hatari!
Hatari pronouncedhtri , Swahili for Danger is a 1962 American actionadventure romantic drama film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne. It portrays a group of professional wildlife catchers in Africa. The film includes dramatic wildlife chases and the magnificent backdrop scenery of Mount Meru, a dormant volcano.
Hatari is the story of a group of adventurers in East Africa, engaged in the exciting and lucrative but dangerous business of catching wild animals for delivery to zoos around the world. As Momella Game Ltd., they operate from a compound near the town of Arusha. The head of the group is Sean Mercer John Wayne the others are safari veteran Little Wolf aka Indian Bruce Cabot, drivers Pockets Red Buttons, and Kurt Hardy Krger, roper Luis a Mexican former bullfighter Valentin de Vargas, and Brandy Michele Girardon, a young woman whose late father was a member of the group she grew up there.Their method shown in several action sequences is to chase the selected animal across the plains with a truck, driven by Pockets, a former Brooklyn taxi driver. Sean stands in the bed of the truck with a rope noose on a long pole, and snags the animal by its head. For smaller animals, Sean rides in a seat mounted on the trucks left front fender. A smaller, faster herding car swings outside, driving the animal back toward the catching truck. Kurt, a German auto racing driver, drives the herding car. Once the animal is snagged, Luis, an expert roper and lassoer, catches its legs and secures it. The animal is then moved into a travel crate, carried on a third truck, driven by Brandy. The captured animals are held in pens in the compound, tended by native workers, until they are shipped out at the end of the hunting season. ........
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