The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Good heavens, this movie is boring! I don’t know what was wrong with screenwriter Casey Robinson, or the people who read his script and didn’t suggest a serious edit or rewrite, but if you can make it through this two hour film without nodding off, you deserve a medal. I couldn’t.
Gregory Peck is wounded, and the entire movie flashes back and forth between him being nursed by Susan Hayward and his reflections of his romance with Ava Gardner. Susan Hayward is one of my all-time favorite actresses, so if a movie of hers is terrible, there has to be a reason. I blame the screenplay, but you can blame Ernest Hemingway’s original story if you like. Greg is written to be a wishy-washy, selfish, and annoying. It’s tough to imagine Gregory Peck being unlikable, but believe me, he is in this movie. Even though he’s wounded and sometimes delirious, he’s just unlikable. I found myself wanting Susan Hayward to give up on him and let him fester.
I realize Ava Gardner was a sex symbol, and that both on and off screen, men couldn’t keep their hands off her, but I never understood why. I never found her appealing, so I didn’t know why Greg kept dreaming of her when he had Susan Hayward sitting right next to him!
If you want to see Greg and Ava, watch The Great Sinner instead. And if you want to see Greg and Susan, watch David and Bathsheba instead. There’s really no reason to watch this one, unless you misplaced your sleeping pills.
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More Ava Gardner movies here!
More Susan Hayward movies here!
More Gregory Peck movies here!
Gregory Peck is wounded, and the entire movie flashes back and forth between him being nursed by Susan Hayward and his reflections of his romance with Ava Gardner. Susan Hayward is one of my all-time favorite actresses, so if a movie of hers is terrible, there has to be a reason. I blame the screenplay, but you can blame Ernest Hemingway’s original story if you like. Greg is written to be a wishy-washy, selfish, and annoying. It’s tough to imagine Gregory Peck being unlikable, but believe me, he is in this movie. Even though he’s wounded and sometimes delirious, he’s just unlikable. I found myself wanting Susan Hayward to give up on him and let him fester.
I realize Ava Gardner was a sex symbol, and that both on and off screen, men couldn’t keep their hands off her, but I never understood why. I never found her appealing, so I didn’t know why Greg kept dreaming of her when he had Susan Hayward sitting right next to him!
If you want to see Greg and Ava, watch The Great Sinner instead. And if you want to see Greg and Susan, watch David and Bathsheba instead. There’s really no reason to watch this one, unless you misplaced your sleeping pills.
Want to watch it? Click here to watch it on ok.ru. And thanks "Classic Cinema Central Seleus B" for posting!
More Ava Gardner movies here!
More Susan Hayward movies here!
More Gregory Peck movies here!