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| Directed by | Stephen Hopkins |
| Written by | William Goldman |
| Based on | The Man-eaters of Tsavo by John Henry Patterson |
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| Cinematography | Vilmos Zsigmond |
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| Music by | Jerry Goldsmith |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $55 million[1] |
| Box office | $87 million[2] |
The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of male lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898.
The film received mixed reviews and grossed $87 million against a production budget of $55 million.[1] It won the Academy Award for Best Sound Editing for supervising sound editor Bruce Stambler.[3][4]
- ^ a b "The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)". The Numbers. Retrieved July 23, 2021.
- ^ "The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)". World Wide Box Office. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
- ^ "Oscar night: Fashion world's moment in sun". The Orlando Sentinel. March 25, 1997. p. 4. Archived from the original on May 6, 2023. Retrieved May 6, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The 69th Academy Awards – 1997". 5 October 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
