The Snows of Kilimanjaro

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Summary: Bad Quality
Review: The quality of this DVD is reallllllllly bad. The actor's mouths are not moving with the sound track. It's like watching a Japanese movie with English dubbed in. We bought this, sent it back for replacement, and the second one is as bad as the first.
Guess I'll have to tape it off of TV sometime.

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Summary: A dissatisfied viewer
Review: The quality of this DVD is terrible. The sound track is off and does not match up with the visual speaking of the actors. The DVD kept jumping back to the beginning of the movie every few minutes. It was impossible to watch this product.

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Summary: reminiscing with Harry
Review: Using Ernest Hemingway's story of a writer in Africa, as well some of his other fictional themes blended in, this is a wordy but occasionally poetic tale of a man with a severe leg wound, reminiscing about his travels and the women in his life, as he lies close to death at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro, with his latest love by his side.
As the ambitious, hard-drinking, hard-living writer (some will say elements of the story are like Hemingway's life), Gregory Peck puts in a good performance, though of all his great films, this one would be near the bottom, perhaps because the part of Harry Street is never particularly likable or heroic, but is of a rather self-centered man with a talent for words but little insight into life, and essentially a boring man, despite his many adventures.
The women in his life are all beauties and played by Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner (excellent as "Cynthia") and Hildegard Knef, and Leo G. Carroll plays "Uncle Bill".

Directed by Henry King with a score by Bernard Hermann, perhaps the best thing in the film is the cinematography by Leon Shamroy, especially the bullfight scene, which is superbly filmed (animal rights people will not like this film because of that scene, as well as the typical Hemingway safari sections).
The film takes place in Africa, as well as France and Spain, where Harry Street joins the Civil War, and finally back to Africa for the purpose of "working the fat off his soul".
The film received two Oscar nominations: Best Color Cinematography (losing to Archie Stout's work for "The Quiet Man") and Best Art Direction/Set Decoration ("Moulin Rouge").
Suggested for serious Peck fans only, total playing time is 117 minutes.


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Summary: I just love Hemmingway.
Review: While sick and dying of an infection in Africa, a journalist thinks back on his life.