The Snows of Kilimanjaro
About The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Writer Harry Street lies on safari with an infected wound, tended by Helen, and remembers Cynthia Green, whom he met in Paris. After his first novel they go to Africa, she miscarries, and she leaves him when she thinks he is off to war as a correspondent. He is later engaged to Countess Elizabeth, who tears up a letter from Cynthia on the eve of the wedding, and he goes to Madrid to find Cynthia.
Cast & crew
More about The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Henry King directed Casey Robinson's script from Ernest Hemingway's 1936 story, produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. Gregory Peck plays Harry, Susan Hayward Helen, and Ava Gardner Cynthia; Leon Shamroy photographed it and Bernard Herrmann composed the score. Wikidata lists 111 minutes, 1952, and locations in Egypt and Kenya.
Themes
Look
Leon Shamroy shot the safari and the flashbacks in color. The color cinematography was nominated for an Academy Award.
Music
Bernard Herrmann composed the score.
Notes
- The film opens on Hemingway's line that Kilimanjaro is 19,710 feet high and omits the next sentence, about the frozen leopard.
- The wound is tied in the film to a thorn and also to Harry jumping into a muddy river to pull a porter away from a hippopotamus.
- Hildegard Knef, Leo G. Carroll, and Marcel Dalio are billed.
- Wikidata names the company 20th Century Studios.
Awards
- National Board of Review Top Ten Films
Scenes
- Elizabeth burns Cynthia's letter in front of Harry.
Influenced by
- Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Also available
- Internet Archive (Kilimanjaro)
