The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

Film details

Featuring

Michael Douglas Val Kilmer Bernard Hill
Country

USA
Year

1996
Genres

Action and Adventure Historical drama
Type

Film
Category

Fiction

Synopsis

Adventure drama based on true events. In the 1890s, Irish engineer and soldier John Patterson is sent to Tsavo, in Kenya, to build a bridge across a river for the East African railway. There, his workers become prey to two man-eating lions, who seem to act unnaturally, killing when not even hungry, as if for the pleasure of it. Patterson tries to kill the lions but is repeatedly thwarted as the lions evade his traps. The workers suspect that the lions are supernatural, perhaps even devils, and they dub them 'The Ghost' and 'The Darkness'. Many men decide to flee. Remington, a renowned sharp-shooter who knows Africa well, is called in to help, and they stalk the lions. Much blood is spilled before Patterson finally gets his chance to stop the beasts once and for all. We are told that the lions can be seen today in a museum in Chicago.

Cast & Credits

Cast
- - Charles Remington
    
    Michael Douglas
  - Colonel John Henry Patterson
    
    Val Kilmer
  - Doctor Hawthorne
    
    Bernard Hill
  - Samuel
    
    John Kani
  - John Beaumont
    
    Tom Wilkinson
  - Angus Starling
    
    Brian McCardie
  - Mahina
    
    Henry Cele
  - Abdullah
    
    Om Puri
  - Helena Patterson
    
    Emily Mortimer
  - Indian victim
    
    Kurt Egelhof
  - worker 1
    
    Satchu Annamalai
  - worker 2
    
    Teddy Reddy
  - worker 3
    
    Rakeem Khan
  - nervous Sikh orderly
    
    Jack Devnarain
  - orderly 1
    
    Glen Gabela
  - orderly 2
    
    Richard Nwamba
  - photographer
    
    Nick Lorentz
  - Stockton
    
    Alex Ferns
  - Beaumont's valet
    
    Kaycey Padayachee
  - Beaumont's clerk
    
    Giles Masters
  - Patterson's son
    
    Patrick Gifford
  - Patterson's son
    
    Justin Gifford
  - station master
    
    George Middlekoop
  - [lion]
    
    Bongo
Credits
- Unknown:
  - Director
    
    Stephen Hopkins
  - Production Company
    
    Paramount Pictures
  - Production Company
    
    Constellation Films
  - Production Company
    
    Douglas-Reuther Productions
  - Executive Producer
    
    Michael Douglas
  - Executive Producer
    
    Steven Reuther
  - Producer
    
    Gale Anne Hurd
  - Producer
    
    Paul Radin
  - Producer
    
    A. Kitman Ho
  - Co-producer
    
    Grant Hill
  - Production Executive
    
    Kirk Borcherding
  - Unit Production Manager
    
    Grant Hill
  - Production Supervisor
    
    Games, Michael
  - Production Supervisor (2nd Unit)
    
    Pease, Toby
  - Production Co-ordinator
    
    Stacy Plavoukos
  - Production Co-ordinator (2nd Unit)
    
    Desiree Bertasso
  - Location Manager
    
    Kevin de la Noy
  - Location Manager (2nd Unit)
    
    Alex Gladstone
  - 2nd Unit Director
    
    Josh McLaglen
  - Assistant Director (1st)
    
    José Luis Escolar
  - Assistant Director (2nd)
    
    David Venghaus
  - Assistant Director (2nd)
    
    Patrick Kinney
  - Assistant Director (2nd)
    
    Matthew Rebenkoff
  - Assistant Director (2nd 2nd)
    
    Javier Chinchilla Kern
  - Assistant Director (3rd)
    
    Emile Smith
  - Assistant Director (2nd Unit 1st)
    
    Doug Raine
  - Assistant Director (2nd Unit 1st)
    
    Lee Cleary
  - Assistant Director (2nd Unit 2nd)
    
    Jacinta Hayne
  - Assistant Director (2nd Unit 3rd)
    
    Franco Mariola
  - Script Supervisor
    
    Nikki Clapp
  - Script Supervisor (2nd Unit)
    
    Wiebina Berrington
  - Casting
    
    Mary Selway
  - Casting
    
    Sarah Trevis
  - Casting (South African)
    
    Jane Warren
  - Casting (ADR Voice)
    
    Barbara Harris
  - Written by
    
    William Goldman
  - Director of Photography
    
    Vilmos Zsigmond
  - Director of Photography (2nd Unit)
    
    Gabriel Beristáin
  - Director of Photography (Kenya Unit)
    
    Jack Couffer
  - Camera Operator (A)
    
    Neal Norton
  - Camera Operator (B)
    
    Joseph D. Urbanczyk
  - Camera Operator (2nd Unit B)
    
    Harmon Cusack
  - Animatronic Effects
    
    Stan Winston Studio
  - SWS (Effects Supervisor)
    
    John Rosengrant
  - SWS (Animatronic Effects Des/Supervisio)
    
    Tim Nordella
  - SWS (Animatronic Effects Des/Supervisio)
    
    Richard Landon
  - SWS (Hair Department Supervisor)
    
    Stuart Artingstall
  - SWS (Fabrication Department Supervisor)
    
    Karen Mason
  - Visual Effects Supervisor
    
    Stuart Robertson
  - Special Visual Effects
    
    Sony Pictures Imageworks Inc.
  - SPI (Visual Effects Supervisor)
    
    Tim McGovern
  - SPI (Sony Imageworks Producer)
    
    Mark Oppenheimer
  - SPI (Director of Photography)
    
    Chuck Schuman
  - SPI (Motion Camera Operator)
    
    Kevin Fitzgerald
  - Special Effects (Supervisor)
    
    Chris Corbould
  - Special Effects (Foreperson)
    
    Andy Williams
  - Special Effects (2nd Unit Co-ordinator)
    
    Janek Zabielski
  - Editor
    
    Robert Brown
  - Editor
    
    Steve Mirkovich
  - Editor
    
    Roger Bondelli
  - Editor (Associate)
    
    Sean Hubbert
  - Production Designer
    
    Stuart Wurtzel
  - Supervising Art Director
    
    George Richardson
  - Supervising Art Director
    
    Steve Saklad
  - Art Director
    
    Giles Masters
  - Art Director
    
    Malcolm Stone
  - Art Director (2nd Unit)
    
    Zack Grobler
  - Set Decorator
    
    Hilton Rosemarin
  - Key Scenic Artist
    
    Dale Haugo
  - Storyboard Artist
    
    Rob Bihun
  - Construction Manager (Period Furnitiure)
    
    Ray Wilson
  - Costume Designer
    
    Ellen Mirojnick
  - Wardrobe Supervisor
    
    John Scott
  - Key Make-up Artist
    
    Paul Engelen
  - Make-up Artist
    
    Meg Speirs
  - Make-up (2nd Unit)
    
    Beverley House
  - Hairstylist (Key)
    
    Suzanne Stokes-Munton
  - Hairstylist (2nd Unit)
    
    Sonya Candis Henning
  - Hairstylist (2nd Unit)
    
    Sue Michael
  - Titles/Opticals
    
    Pacific Title
  - Music
    
    Jerry Goldsmith
  - Additional Vocals
    
    Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
  - Music Supervisor in Africa
    
    George Acogny
  - Supervising Music Editor
    
    Ken Hall
  - Music Editor
    
    Sally Boldt
  - Music Editor (Location)
    
    Curtis Roush
  - Scoring Mixer
    
    Bruce Botnick
  - Ethnic Music Researcher
    
    Kelly Askew
  - Sound Mixer
    
    Simon Kaye
  - Sound Mixer (2nd Unit)
    
    Colin Mcfarlane
  - Recordist
    
    Gary Ritchie
  - Recordist
    
    Mccart, Kathy
  - Re-recording Mixer
    
    Mitchell, Donald O.
  - Re-recording Mixer
    
    Rick Hart
  - Re-recording Mixer
    
    Frank A. Montaño
  - Supervising Sound Editor
    
    Bruce Stambler
  - Dialogue Editor
    
    John Leveque
  - Dialogue Editor
    
    Kimberly Lowe Voigt
  - Dialogue Editor
    
    Marshall Winn
  - Dialogue Editor
    
    Iatrou, Mildred
  - Sound Effect Co-ordinator
    
    John Michael Fanaris
  - Sound Effect Co-ordinator
    
    Blake Marion
  - Sound Effects Editor
    
    Lance Brown
  - Sound Effects Editor
    
    Glenn Hoskinson
  - Sound Effects Editor
    
    Steve Mann
  - Sound Effects Editor
    
    Steve Nelson
  - Sound Effects Editor
    
    Kim Secrist
  - Sound Effects Editor
    
    Donald L. Warner Jr
  - Sound Effects Editor
    
    Richard E. Yawn
  - Sound Effects Editor
    
    Gary Mundheim
  - Sound Effects Editor
    
    Gordon Ecker
  - ADR (Mixer)
    
    Thomas J. O'Connell
  - ADR (Recordist)
    
    Rick Canelli
  - ADR (Supervising Editor)
    
    Becky Sullivan
  - ADR (Editor)
    
    Joe Dorn
  - Foley (Artist)
    
    Roesch, John B.
  - Foley (Artist)
    
    Hilda Hodges
  - Foley (Mixer)
    
    Mary Jo Lang
  - Foley (Recordist)
    
    Carolyn Tapp
  - Foley (Supervising Editor)
    
    Michael Dressel
  - Foley (Editor)
    
    Shawn Sykora
  - Foley (Editor)
    
    Bob Beher
  - Foley (Editor)
    
    Mark Pappas
  - Stunt Co-ordinator
    
    Danny Baldwin
  - Stunt Co-ordinator (South African)
    
    Gavin Mey
  - Armourer
    
    Jacques Hoffman
  - Armourer (2nd Unit)
    
    Olly Steele
  - Supervising Animal Trainer
    
    Sled Reynolds
  - Lion Handler
    
    Michael Hackenberger
  - Lion Handler
    
    Thierry Leportier
  - Lion Handler
    
    Fess Reynolds
  - Lion Handler
    
    Hubert Wells
  - Domestic Animal Wrangler
    
    Emile De Kock