The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film)

The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 1952 American Technicolor film based on the short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. The film version of the short story was directed by Henry King, written by Casey Robinson, and starred Gregory Peck as Harry, Susan Hayward as Helen, and Ava Gardner as Cynthia Green a character invented for the film. The films ending does not mirror the books ending.

The film begins with the opening words of Hemingways story Kilimanjaro is a snowcovered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai Ngje Ngi, the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.The story centers on the memories of disillusioned writer Harry Street Gregory Peck who is on safari in Africa. He has a severely infected wound from a thorn prick, and lies outside his tent awaiting a slow death, though in the film it is pointed out he may have acquired the infection from leaping into a muddy river to rescue one of the safaris porters from a hippo after he falls in the river. His female companion Helen Susan Hayward nurses Harry and hunts game for the larder. ........

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