Stars: Val Kilmer, Malcolm Douglas

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Summary: At the turn of the Century two men set out to hunt for the man-eating lions, who have taken to killing for sport.

Based on a true story, this thrilling action film 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 behaviour--they kill in tandem, attack in the daylight, and show no fear of anything. Soon the hunters become the hunted....

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Val Kilmer stars in The Ghost and the Darknessas Lt Col John Patterson, a 19th-century Irish engineer drafted by Britain's railroad bosses to build a trestle bridge over an African river, thus expanding the empire a tiny bit more. In Tsavo, Patterson is instantly hailed for killing a man-eating lion that had been making life hell for native workers. But morale sinks when two more unstoppable big cats devour more men and destroy the project. Along comes an, expatriate American hunter (Michael Douglas) to help Patterson face the almost preternatural powers of the two killers. The script by William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is based on fact, though the film owes more to Steven Spielberg (specifically to Jaws) than history. There are also suggestive echoes of Kipling and Conrad in the material and characters, and there are hints of emotional complexity and psychological nuance that make one wish this could have been a great film instead of a merely fun one.--Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Theatrical Trailer
Subtitles:	Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Year:	1996
Release Date:	December 3, 2001
Runtime:	105 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	P H E 8037
Keywords:	Darkness, Off, Ghost, General, Wide, Screen, Thriller, Schedule
Genre:	Thriller