The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

Based on a true story, THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS takes place in Africa during the late 1890s and concerns two ferocious lions who killed 130 railroad construction workers in only two months. A pair of courageous men, no-nonsense engineer John Patterson (Val Kilmer) and rugged hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas), set out to shoot the creatures, known as the Ghost and the Darkness. Making their task even harder is the two animals un-lionlike behavior--they kill in tandem, attack in the daylight, and show no fear of anything. Soon the hunters become the hunted....

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A man bringing modern transportation to the ancient jungles of Africa discovers one of man's oldest enemies lays in wait for him in this period adventure drama. John Beaumont (Tom Wilkinson) is the owner of a British railroad firm who is building a rail line through Uganda. A bridge is needed so that the tracks may cross a large river, and engineer John Henry Patterson (Val Kilmer) is summoned to the African nation to supervise construction. While Beaumont has placed Patterson under a strict deadline, the bridge designer is certain that with his guidance, the local laborers will be able to complete the job in tim...
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e. However, when several workers are killed in an attack by a lion, Patterson is forced to deal with the animal; while he bags a lion who invades the work site one evening, it soon becomes obvious that there's more than one predator in the nearby jungle. The lion attacks continue, eventually claiming the lives of 130 men, and Patterson and Beaumont finally agree to call in Charles Remmington (Michael Douglas), an expert hunter who understands the nature of the man-eaters and knows how to lure them into his trap. The Ghost and the Darkness is based on a true story, which was previously brought to the screen in 1953, in Arch Oboler's pioneering 3-D adventure Bwana Devil.
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Luitenant-kolonel John Patterson, een jong en briljant ingenieur, vertrekt in 1896 naar Afrika. Zijn opdracht, de aanleg afwerken van een spoorweg tussen Mombassa en het Victoriameer. De brug over de Tsavoririvier, het belangrijkste bouwwerk van het project, moet het Britse imperium de controle verzekeren over de ivoorhandel tussen Oost-Afrika en een doorslaggevend voordeel opleveren in de strijd tegen de Franse en Duitse concurrenten. Op de werf van Tsavori is de sfeer helemaal verziekt, maar Patterson slaagt erin de orde te herstellen. Hij verwerft het respect van zijn manschappen als hij met één enkele kogel e...
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en dolende leeuw neerknalt. Enkele dagen later wordt er echter opnieuw een leeuw gesignaleerd...
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