Mogambo Page #5

Synopsis: Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. The two men and two women have some difficulty arranging these emotions to their mutual satisfaction, but eventually succeed.
Director(s): John Ford
Production: MGM
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Rotten Tomatoes:
82%
APPROVED
Year:
1953
116 min
449 Views


Excessive reaction to the tsetse fly shot,

that's all.

He'll be out of his head for a day or two.

We'll snap him out of it.

I've got tablets.

Don't let him throw this blanket off.

The shoes.

Our young scientist just went

to his knees. Out cold. Tsetse fly shot.

That's too bad.

Mr. Marswell, he's trembling

and shaking and getting nauseated.

We've got to get him to a doctor.

Moving him would aggravate

his condition.

He's running a high fever.

We have to break it up.

- Haven't you a thermometer?

- We don't need one. Fever is fever.

But...

Just a minute, please, will you?

Would one of these be...?

A lion chewed him up.

This place is turning into a hospital.

Strap him up, Brownie.

Would one of these be the right thing?

Donald knows all about them...

Sorry. Out here, we have three antidotes

for everything:

Quinine, iodine, and castor oil.

Quinine should fix him up very nicely.

I don't think he needs

the other two, do you?

At certain times,

jokes are in very poor taste.

Come on, no reason to lose your temper.

Please hurry.

There you are.

He'll start to sweat in half an hour or so.

Keep him well covered up.

I'll be back from time to time.

He's strong enough, all right.

Got a bite like a young croc.

Mr. Marswell, just a minute.

Is that all you're going to do for him?

What do you expect me to do?

Crawl in bed with him and hold his hand?

Keep him well covered up

and get all the water down him you can.

- Will you do that? Will you do what I said?

- Yes.

And give him one of those pills

every four hours.

Good night.

Mr. Marswell.

Oh, no, please sit still.

It's time for his pill

but he's sleeping so well...

...I didn't want to wake him.

I'll have a look.

Boltchak, play cards.

- Much better. Let him sleep.

- All right.

Good night.

I'd like to apologize about this morning.

I'm terribly ashamed.

I had it coming.

- You pack a good wallop.

- Please.

It was very shabby behavior.

- I hope you'll be comfortable on that.

- Yes, thank you.

It was most thoughtful of you.

What on earth are those horrible sounds?

An animal of some kind?

Yes. They're hippos fighting.

- Why are they fighting?

- Probably over a female.

- Thank you very much for everything.

- I'll put it on the bill.

My room is the last one

on the porch corridor...

...in case he needs anything

during the night.

Thank you again.

Good night.

Nordley come out of it yet?

Yes. They're both feeling much better.

Two pretty girls in one week.

Kelly.

I'm going to miss Kelly.

Kelly was all right.

I didn't say she wasn't, did I?

Take it easy going up them stairs.

Give me a bag. Throw me a bag up.

- Which one?

- The little one.

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John Lee Mahin

John Lee Mahin (August 23, 1902, Evanston, Illinois – April 18, 1984, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter and producer of films who was active in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was known as the favorite writer of Clark Gable and Victor Fleming. In the words of one profile, he had "a flair for rousing adventure material, and at the same time he wrote some of the raciest and most sophisticated sexual comedies of that period." more…

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