On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
Cinematography
Actual African locations—no backlot fakery here.
Acting
Ava Gardner eats every scene alive; Grace Kelly simmers.
Director
John Ford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is a shot-for-shot remake of 1932's 'Red Dust'—Gable played the same role twenty years earlier opposite Jean Harlow.
Grace Kelly allegedly had an affair with Gable during filming, making her on-screen guilt deliciously meta.
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