The Ghost and the Darkness
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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.
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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 | $75 million[2] |
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The film received mixed reviews and grossed $75 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]