To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Mogambo is a remake of the 1932 drama Red Dust. In 1932, Clark Gable was torn between Jean Harlow and Mary Astor. In 1953, he reprised his role and found himself torn between Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly. Watch the original.While in the original, a high-class married couple travel to China to hunt big game, the remake is set in Africa. Elephants and apes are shown, since in 1953, the company filmed on location rather than in a studio, but that doesn't make up for the lackluster script and terrible casting. No one can compete with Jean Harlow, and Ava Gardner just comes across as overheated and sloppy. Grace Kelly plays the icy, sophisticated married woman, and while she was typecast in that type of role, I always thought she was very insincere in her love scenes.In the story she's drawn to Clark Gable's ruggedness, but she doesn't know he's already become involved with the very loose Ava. Hence the love triangle. The original was made before the Hays Code, so Jean Harlow's character was a prostitute, but in the 50s, Hollywood censorship didn't allow Ava's character to be sullied that much.Clark Gable seems old and tired, which makes sense, since he's already made this exact movie before. And although you can find ample information about why the cast and crew were not happy while filming Mogambo, I can't help but consider the sad memories Clark must have felt while remaking a film he made with Jean Harlow, his real-life friend who died tragically during the shooting of another movie they made together. It makes sense that he didn't give a very enthusiastic performance. Unless you're an Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly fan, which I am not, I can't recommend you watch this movie.

Habitat destruction, gorilla poaching. Clark Gable kills a panther, kills a gorilla, and smokes 300 cigarettes and gets drunk. Grace Kelly is a Bimbo, Ava Gardner lounges around a lot.Lots of scene of natives dancing around and singing, threatening, doing bwana's bidding. Stock scenes of gorillas charging. Elephants, hippos, crocodiles. Clark makes out with Grace Kelly, but stays with Ava in the end.In the last scene, Ava Gardner's character is shoving off on a boat, then changes her mind, jumps in the water and wades back to Clark baby. I was expecting her to get eaten by a crocodile, but no such luck.I watched the whole thing in French, didn't understand a word of it, but didn't need to. Clark is ultra macho, Grace is a silly white girl. Ava comes off as a bit mannish.

In Africa, a hunter (Clark Gable) who catches animals for zoos has two women come for safari; one is a worldly, nightclubbing dame (Ava Gardner) and the other a demure, Bostonian wife (Grace Kelly). Both find the macho man irresistible.I like the three stars a lot, but I didn't care much for this movie. Gable's character is a silly caricature of rugged manliness; he growls orders, drinks a lot, and grabs women too roughly. He was only 52, but looked much older and was past his Rhett Butler glory days. Kelly is good but seems to be trying oh-so-hard to be stern and matronly with much lip-pouting and overdoing the accent. Gardner plays her usual sexy, sadder-but-wiser part, but her dialogue is phony and stagy, her character overblown and never believable.While the animal-catching and scenes of marginalized natives are terribly out of fashion and off-putting, the location scenery is beautiful, especially filmed in brilliant Technicolor. With two gorgeous women fighting for Clark Gable, I imagine the movie was quite sensational when it came out in 1953, but now I found it corny and silly.

Mogambo stars Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly. In the early 1950s, Hollywood was trying to find some formula to get people out of their living rooms watching TV and back to the theater, so took their top stars to Africa on safari. That'll show those upstarts! This was a big hit and is one of the better uses of the great grasslands, and uplands, of Africa and the animals who live there. The gorilla scenes are marvelous too, but the attitude that shooting animals and/or catching them for display in zoos, is backward. Gardner steals the film from goody two shoes Grace. Grace may have gotten a prince in real life, but Ava got 'The King' of films in this movie and, according to bios, in real life. There is no music score. Only the chants and sounds of Africa. So effective and one of the first films to use the system. Remake of Red Dust which also starred Gable with the blond bombshell - Jean Harlow. Earlier film was fun, but this safari does it for me. 8/10