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Blue Chip Production
THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO
t Month, film BULLETIN inaugurated a new I turc which spotlights one currently-filming pice as the "production of the month" — bused on various ingredients that go into making a office winner. This month, with 42 features choose from, the honor goes to 20th Century's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro.'''' which is just ing from the sound stages to the editing rlment.)
" ' 1 *HE Snows of Kilimanjaro", adapted from the classic Ernest Hemingway >ry of a virile writer and game hunter aiting possible death, is Darryl F. nuck's lone personal production for 1952. nd like all of the pictures which Zanuck is produced, no expense is being spared to ake it outsandingly spectacular. The producer has been working on the oject off and on since 1942, when he first sited the European and African locales of e story. After years of periodic conferences ith Casey Robinson, who was assigned to > the script, Zanuck finally gave the screen ama his blessings, and set about casting it ith four top name stars — Gregory Peck, .isan Hayward, Ava Gardner and Hilde"ade Xeff. Few pictures in recent years ave boasted a cast which would surpass the jmbined earnings of these stars. Assured of his story and players, Zanuck len assigned the direction to top notcher
Gregory Peck. Novelist and wild game hunter, believing he faces death, confesses the initmaeies of his pas' life to his wife. Susan Hayward.
Henry King and the Technicolor photography to Leon Shamroy, three-time Academy Award winner and one of the all-time greats of his profession.
The Technicolor camera crew spent six months in Paris, on the Riviera, and in Africa shooting backgrounds and big game hunts. At the same time, a massive set, representing an African hunting camp, was set up on Stage 8, at the company's Westwood lot. It was backed up by a 350 by 40 foot cyclorama canvas duplicating the bush country around 19,710 foot Mt. Kilimanjaro, as well as the snow-capped peak itself.
Then came the actual shooting, a schedule of 48 days — not including the six months spent in background filming. A new and faster Technicolor film was adopted for the production, which produced a superior color with less light, using incandescant bulbs in
stead of heat-producing arc lights.
The story, told in flash back, relates the experiences of a successful novelist and big game hunter (Gregory Peck) who has returned to Africa, where, he thinks, he lost his way professionally and began writing only for money. On a hunt with his wealthy wife, Susan Hayward, he suffers a leg infection, and believing that he is about to die, decides to tell her all of the innermost secrets of her life. Miss Gardner is revealed as his one true love, a beautiful and firey young woman who leaves him after deliberately destroying their unborn child. Miss Xeff is cast as an enegmatic and cool countess who plays a major part in destroying his will to write.
" The Snows of 'Kilimanjaro" can best be described as a really "gutty" piece of screen entertainment.
Peck recalls his happy days with Ava Gardner, the fiery beauty who was the one true love of his life.