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Africa | Based On Novel Or Book
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Best Cinematography Color | 1951
Budget 2,300,000 USD
Box Office Collection 15,057,465 USD
While filming on location in Carlsbad National Park's New Cave, Deborah Kerr took her lipstick and wrote the initials "DK" on a cave formation near the Klansman formation that was used as a background. An electrician also took a burned out lamp and tossed it in a hole under that formation. Since the cave is still 'active', meaning the formations are still slowly being encased in more minerals, the initials and the lamp are now solidly encased in a layer limestone that is thin enough to see through but thick enough to prevent removal. The Carlsbad Park Rangers refer to the "DK" as the Deborah Kerr formation. Both are still visible to this day.
The scene in which Deborah Kerr cuts her own hair and then cuts to her sunning with a perfectly coiffed hairstyle got such a big laugh at the initial screenings of the film that producers debated removing the scene. However, they couldn't figure out another way to explain Kerr's change of hairstyle, so they kept the improbable scenes intact.
The elephant stampede sequence in the film was reshot in Hollywood using a trained elephant, as the footage of the actual stampede in Africa was lost when the cast and crew of the film fled from the deadly rush of the animals.
Stewart Granger speaks actual Kiswahili in this film, and with marginally good pronunciation. This is very different than other safari films of the day such as Mogambo (1953), in which Clark Gable barely makes any effort to do so.
This film provides an in-depth look at indigenous culture, employing existing villages and locally recruited extras.
"Allan Quatermain: Mrs. Curtis, the average life of a man in my profession is approximately eight years. Now, I've been at it for fifteen, so you see, I've been living on borrowed time. My wife died here six years ago. Sooner or later, an animal, or an unfriendly native, or a tropical disease will get me. I have a son in England. There'll be very little money for him if anything should happen to me in the ORDINARY course of events, but the money you're offering would provide very nicely for the boy until he's old enough to take care of himself."
"Allan Quatermain: There are no souls in the jungle. Very little justice and no ethics. And in the end, you begin to accept it all. You watch things hunting and being hunted. Reproducing, killing and dying. It's all endless and pointless. Except, in the end, one small pattern emerges from it all. The only certainty. One is born, one lives for a time, and one dies. That's all."
