The Ghost and the Darkness
1996 · 109 min
Directed by Stephen Hopkins. Written by Stephen Hopkins, William Goldman. Starring Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson, John Kani.
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.
Critics 52% · audiences 75% · streaming on Paramount+, Hoopla, Tubi · 1 Oscar nomination, 1 won