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The Ghost and the Darkness

Prey For The Hunters

1996 · R · 1h 49m

Directed by Stephen Hopkins

6.9

TMDB audience score
1,223 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Michael Douglas
    Charles Remington

  • Val Kilmer
    Col. John Henry Patterson

  • Tom Wilkinson
    Sir Robert Beaumont

  • John Kani
    Samuel

  • Emily Mortimer
    Helena Patterson

  • Bernard Hill
    Dr. David Hawthorne

  • Brian McCardie
    Angus Starling

  • Om Puri
    Abdullah

  • Jack Devnarain
    Nervous Sikh Orderly

  • Henry Cele
    Mahina

  • Kurt Egelhof
    Indian Victim

  • Satchu Annamalai
    Worker

  • Teddy Reddy
    Worker

  • Raheem Khan
    Worker

  • Glen Gabela
    Orderly

  • Richard Nwamba
    Orderly #2

  • Nick Lorentz
    Photographer

  • Alex Ferns
    Stockton