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[[File:TheGhostAndTheDarkness_4333.jpg|frame|[[Wag the Director|He even got featured in front of the]] ''main character''.]]

The movie tells the [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]] (mis)adventure of John Henry Patterson, a British-Irish Lieutenant Colonel and Military Engineer that is assigned the supervision of a railroad's construction in 1898 East Africa. This mission that seems so easy at first is soon complicated by the apparition of two reckless [[I Am a Humanitarian|anthropophage]] lions, the ''Ghost'' and the ''Darkness'', that manage to infiltrate every part of the construction camp whenever they please to hunt the workers. This obviously spreads panic among the men and makes the threat of rebellion likely, leaving Patterson with only the help of his African assistant Samuel and the American hunter Remington to face the lions and save the railroad project before it is too late.

Part because live-acted lions didn't seem much of a threat after theatres had already been attacked by expensive CGI [[Jurassic Park|dinosaurs]] and [[Independence Day|alien invaders]], part because the main character (played by the ''goddam [[Batman]]'') was heavily toned down to [[Executive Meddling|make room for the]] [[Wag the Director|originally tertiary character]] played by producer Michael Douglas, the film got mixed reviews and a disappointing performance in the box-office. It also won an Accademy Award for Best Sound Editing which is [[Consolation Award|pretty much like winning nothing]]. The movie still remains an entertaining adventure movie with that classical feel in it, however.

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* [[Agony of the Feet]]

* [[Artistic License]]: The real [[wikipedia:Tsavo maneaters|Tsavo maneaters]] had no manes. Manes [[Rule of Cool|look cool]], though, and the animal handlers tend to complain if you say you want to shave their lions...

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