the film explores a story of a group of professional wildlife catchers in Africa. These catchers try to trap wild animals then sell them to zoos. Overtime, there is a female wildlife photographer appears in their lives, so they are threatened to change their ways after a short time.
Hawks continues to explore his favorite themes--professional conduct and male camaraderie--in this African travelogue abouyt an international team of animals catchers, headed by John Wayne. Though plotless, the film is visually compelling.
Colorful John Wayne Africa-based yarn w/slapstick, adventure, animals, and great Mancini score.
New York Times
May 09, 2005
Perhaps the accent on the trapping of free-roaming critters for use in zoos is a mite too heavy, but this aspect of African business rates the attention it receives here.
TV Guide
May 13, 2008
The story is nothing more than a poor excuse for what Hawks really seems to be interested in presenting--big-game chases over the Kenyan veldt. These sequences are so well done that they save this otherwise-tepid film.
This late masterpiece (1962) by Howard Hawks transcends every literary value in the book to become a brilliantly entertaining and insightful work of pure cinema.
