Mogambo

Mogambo

Flaming love found in the savage heart of the jungle!

NR 1953 · 116 min · ★ 6.4 · Adventure, Drama, Romance

On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.

Directed by John Ford · Written by John Lee Mahin

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