Friday, March 30, 2012

Hatari #2

Hatari-2 by bucklesw1
Hatari-2, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Strapped to a seat mounted on the hood of one of the safari trucks, John Wayne is ready for action. It was originally planned that HATARI would star both Clark Gable and John Wayne. (Earlier, Gable had played a very similar role in MOGAMBO.) However Gable’s asking price was too high and, in any case, he died before HATARI went into production.)

2 comments:

Rick Keller said...

Great movie!!!

GaryHill said...

When I was in Uganda in 74, we used a larger truck with gun turrents over the cab and the catch guys stood up through them holding the bambo pole with the loop. Basicially the same except when captureing baby elephants ,two landrovers circled shooting into the air to scare off the herd of mad mommas!!