The Ghost and the Darkness

The Ghost and the Darkness

1996 · 1 hr 50 min · R

Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Directors

Stephen Hopkins

Actors

  • Michael Douglas
  • Val Kilmer
  • Tom Wilkinson

Credits: 8

Summary

A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.

More about this movie

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.