Mogambo

Sep 23, 1953

1h 56m

★ 6.4

Flaming love found in the savage heart of the jungle!

Overview

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

Genres

Adventure

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Mogambo Trailers

Cast

Victor Marswell

Clark Gable

Eloise Y. Kelly

Ava Gardner

Linda Nordley

Grace Kelly

Donald Nordley

Donald Sinden

John Brown-Pryce

Philip Stainton

Leon Boltchak

Eric Pohlmann

Skipper

Laurence Naismith

Father Josef

Denis O'Dea

Wilson (uncredited)

Bruce Seton

Young Native Girl (uncredited)

Asa Etula

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