The Macomber Affair

Apr 20, 1947

1h 29m

★ 6.5

Peck...Bennett...Hemingway...only all three together could create this electric love story...with a vengeance!

Overview

A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".

Genres

Adventure

Drama

Production Companies

Benedict Bogeaus Production

United Artists

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Cast

Robert Wilson

Gregory Peck

Margaret Macomber

Joan Bennett

Francis Macomber

Robert Preston

Police Inspector

Reginald Denny

Aimee

Jean Gillie

Coroner

Carl Harbord

Clerk

Frederick Worlock

Reporter Logan

Vernon Downing

Masai Warrior (uncredited)

Darby Jones

Bartender (uncredited)

Martin Wilkins

Kongoni

Earl Smith

Abdullah (uncredited)

Hassan Said

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