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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

11/01/2009

Mogambo (1953)

It's Clark Gable (I love him!) as a great white hunter in Africa and Grace Kelly (hey! I love her too!) as the prim married Brit he falls for and Ava Gardner (hey! Um...Ava Gardner!) as the showgirl who falls for him.

Yeah, that sounds a whole lot better than it actually is. What's actually delivered is a bunch of safari footage with a contrived love triangle pasted over it while the female members of the triangle point and coo "Beautiful!" and "Look at that!" toward animals which are obviously in another film altogether.

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