Movies Watched -- Mogambo (1953)

Added on by C. Maoxian.

115 minute running time, so at least 15 to 20 minutes too long. I’m on a Grace Kelly kick after seeing Rear Window again … this is a weird one. 52-year-old Clark Gable is a safari guide in Africa … Ava Gardner shows up out of nowhere … street-smart glamour girl looks fabulous in the wild, tiny waist big boobs, she falls for Clark (she’s 37 then) … later on Grace Kelly (age 30?) and her British husband show up and she falls for Clark too. Grace Kelly has a phony posh British accent … she ends up shooting Gable, but don’t worry, it’s only a flesh wound. Strange early-50s studio movie about a love/sex triangle … seems pretty out of date now. The footage taken of the natives and the wildlife is sort of interesting, but there’s not much redeeming beyond that. You can give this one a miss.

Princess Grace being held by the two-legged boa constrictor

Princess Grace being held by the two-legged boa constrictor