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- Created: 26 Nov 2011
Why Film in Tanzania
Hollywood: Tanzania misses you
It has been long since a major studio worked in Tanzania. We miss you and we want you in our beautiful country. We know we have what it takes to host your film production, we grow up a lot since last time a Hatari movie was shot in 1962 .
Hatari
USA (1962)
Adventure film with John Wayne, directed by Howard Hawks. A group of men are making their living from trapping animals and selling them to zoo's in Europe and America. A woman shows up. She is a wildlife photographer and questions the mens methods. Exiting, entertaining and good action scenes, but no more. Filmed mainly in the national parks of Tanzania. "Hatari" is the swahili word for danger.
The snow of Kilimanjaro
A wounded writer rethinks his life while waiting for relief. Gregory Peck stars in this movie based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Not much is actually shot on location in Africa.
King Solomon's Mines
USA (1950)
The best of the Solomon movies. Story is the same: Qartermain falling in love with the woman he is guiding through the wild and dangerous Africa. Starring Deboarh Kerr and Stewart Granger. Good adventure entertainment and quite impressive action sequences for the time. Filmed spectaculary on location in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Congo and USA.