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Hatari!
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United States 1962
Comments:
Director: Howard Hawks
Screenplay: Leigh Brackett, Harry Kurnitz
Producer: Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick
Cast: John Wayne, Hardy Krüger, Elsa Martinelli, Red Buttons, Gérard Blain
Genre: Adventure, Comedy

Running Time: 157
Aspect Ratio:  2.35:1 (NTSC Widescreen)
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Subtitles: English
Features:
Studio:  Paramount Pictures DVD Region:  1 NR
DVD Release:  May 2007 Discs:  1 (Cloud) []
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Reviews:  John Wayne and his ensemble cast cavort over the African landscape filling orders from zoos for wild animals. Bruce Cabot plays "the Indian", a womanizing sharpshooter who is gored by a rhino in the opening scenes of the film. This becomes a running theme through the movie; their bad luck in catching rhinos, and provides the climactic ending chase. While Bruce is in the hospital, Elsa Martinelli shows up as a woman photographer from a Swiss zoo, and John wants to send her packing. She strongarms the Duke into letting her stay by promising that her zoo will buy most of their animals this season if she's allowed to go along on the hunts and take photos. Hardy Kruger, Gerard Blain, Michelle Girardon and Valentin de Vargas round out the group. They traipse over the African landscape capturing animals; Elsa also has a running gag where she collects baby elephants as the movie goes along. In the end she's acquired three of them.


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