Hatari!

Hatari! Review

With the cast doing up close and personal stunts with African animals, including in the capture sequences, there was more actual danger in this film than most!

In Hatari!, John Wayne leads a group of professional animal capture experts, filling orders for zoos worldwide. Their season of hunting is complicated when one of the group is gored by a rhino, and by a female photographer (Dallas) who shows up. When Dallas begins to accumulate a nursery of baby elephants, things get even more complicated.

A budding romance between Sean (Wayne) and Dallas is by no means overdone, but does provide a few of the many amusing moments in this excellent tale, full of slice of life moments on the African veldt and in the hunters' compound. Such solid acting talent as Red Buttons, Bruce Cabot, and Hardy Kruger help fill a delightful cast which operates with perfect chemistry.

Listen closely as the cast prods and pushes a zebra into a capture crate. You'll hear John Wayne say "Get him the hell in there!" While common even in family hour programming for decades now, you didn't hear even "hell" and "damn" in much movie dialog in 1962! LOL

Another treat is the rocket shot to capture monkeys.

This is a one of a kind movie. If somehow you haven't seen it yet, make sure you do. You won't be disappointed.

Hatari! Overview

John Wayne heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa to capture animals for zoos and circus attractions.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: NR
Release Date: 13-MAY-2003
Media Type: DVD

Hatari! Specifications

Howard Hawks's 1962 adventure-comedy is basically the same, loosely plotted movie Hawks made over and over again for decades. A collection of professionals with a common goal--in this case, animal trapping in Tanganyika--forms a pocket community and holds each other to high standards in their work. This is a film about camaraderie, crisp banter, romance, and exciting action (the animal sequences are great). John Wayne played this part in about a thousand ways for Hawks over the years, and he could not be more entertaining as a grizzled pro. --Tom Keogh

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