The Ghost and the Darkness

The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 historical adventure film starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas set in Africa at the end of the 19th century. It was directed by Stephen Hopkins and the screenplay was written by William Goldman.

In 1898, Sir Robert Beaumont Tom Wilkinson, the primary financier of a railroad project in Tsavo, Kenya, is furious because the project is running behind schedule. He seeks out the expertise of John Henry Patterson Val Kilmer, an Irish military engineer, to get the project back on track. Patterson travels from England to Tsavo, telling his wife, Helena, he will complete the project and be back in London for the birth of their son. He meets supervisors Angus Starling Brian McCardie and Samuel John Kani the films narrator, and the doctor, David Hawthorne Bernard Hill. Hawthorne tells Patterson of a recent lion attack.That night, Patterson kills an approaching lion with one shot, earning the respect of the workmen. The project gets back on schedule. However, not long afterwards Mahina Henry Cele, the construction foreman, is dragged from his tent in the middle of the night. His halfeaten body is found the next morning. Patterson then attempts a second nighttime lion hunt, but the following morning another worker is found dead at the opposite end of the camp from Pattersons position. ........

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