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The Macomber Affair is a american film of genre Drama directed by Zoltan Korda released in USA on 17 september 1947 with Gregory Peck
The Macomber Affair (1947)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 17 september 1947
Length 1h29
Directed by Zoltan Korda
OriginUSA
Themes Films set in Africa
Rating65%
The Macomber Affair is a 1947 movie set in British East Africa concerning a fatal triangle involving a frustrated wife, a weak husband, and the professional hunter who comes between them. The film was distributed by United Artists and directed by Zoltan Korda, and features Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, and Robert Preston.
The screenplay was written by Casey Robinson and Seymour Bennett and adapted by Bennett and Frank Arnold, based on "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", the 1936 Ernest Hemingway short story.
Synopsis
Margaret "Margot" Macomber (Joan Bennett) is unhappily married to Francis Macomber (Robert Preston). As their plane lands in Nairobi, Kenya, accompanied by Robert Wilson (Gregory Peck), a big-game hunter, Francis is dead from a gunshot wound to the back of his head.Actors
Gregory Peck
(Robert Wilson)
Joan Bennett
(Margaret Macomber)
Robert Preston
(Francis Macomber)
Reginald Denny
(Police Inspector)
Jean Gillie
(Aimee)
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