The Ghost and the Darkness

Is The Ghost and the Darkness right for your family?

Movie 1996 109 min

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

What's inside

Provisional estimate — not yet fully analyzed. 14 (BR)

Likely present: ViolenceHeavy emotional content

The story involves railroad construction in Africa and lion attacks.

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