Word: kilimanjaro
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...free medical treatment, courtesy of the Kremlin; afterwards, they have a curious habit of turning up in trouble spots all over Africa. Sir Percy's theory, if true, could plausibly explain the fact that Mau Mau agents have been caught infiltrating along the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro into Tanganyika Territory, and that a Mau Mau-like society whose slogan is "Kill the Whites and Christians" is growing in the Belgian Congo. With Asia in flames, the Reds are apparently getting ready to fan the fires of revolt in colonial Africa...
Election excitement in October made a noticeable dent on the movie box office, according to a Variety poll of 25 key cities, but the popular pictures nonetheless showed "amazing strength." The armor-plate horse opera Ivanhoe (MGM) held a steady lead, but The Snows of Kilimanjaro (20th Century-Fox) was pushing hard from second place. Other winners...
Hemingway's Snows of Kilimanjaro starts with a terse and inscrutable paragraph about a dead leopard atop a snow-clad African mountain. That paragraph stopped 20th Century Fox dead in its tracks. Faced with the problem of going along with an essentially plotless and often unfathomable character study or scrapping it for a more conventional plot, 20th Century screenwriter solved it by choosing neither and writing in a mass of extras and animals instead. The result is a spectacular mudflat of a film, neither good Hemingway nor good...
...Snows of Kilimanjaro is about an unhappy writer, dying of gangrene under a treeful of vultures while he thinks in flamboyant technicolor flashback thoughts about his misspent life and the stories he has failed to write. Hemingway used those flashbacks effectively to tell you a little about his writer: 20th Century Fox uses them only to sneak in one colossal scene after another. Thick and fast they come: Gregory Peck by the Seine, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner at the bullfights and in the Spanish civil war, Gregory Peck and Hildegarde Neff splashing about the Riviera, Gregory Peck, friendly natives...
...Snows of Kilimanjaro (20th Century-Fox) is likely to remind most adult males of their more lurid adolescent daydreams. Produced by Darryl Zanuck and vaguely based on the Ernest Hemingway short story, the movie is a Technicolor travelogue that ranges from Africa to Europe to backwoods Michigan, a sort of scenic railway running through a Tunnel of Love...