Mogambo is a Problematic Classic

Mogambo is a 1953 MGM film directed by John Ford. It stars Clark Gable, Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly. The screenplay was written by John Lee Mahin and is based on a Wilson Collison play. The film is a remake of Red Dust, a 1932 film that also starred Gable. In the early 1950s, MGM was having financial success with colour remakes of old titles such as King Solomon’s Mines and Quo Vadis. Mogambo made