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White Hunter Black Heart is a 1990 American adventure drama film produced, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. It is based on the 1953 book of the same name written by Peter Viertel, who cowrote the screenplay with James Bridges and Burt Kennedy. The screenplay was the last that Bridges wrote before his death in 1993.
White Hunter Black Heart (1990) – adventure drama film depicting a thinly disguised account of Peter Viertel's experiences while working on the 1951 film The African Queen, which was shot on location in Africa at a time when location shoots outside of the United States for American films were very rare [82]
Jeffrey David Fahey (/ ˈ f eɪ h i /, born November 29, 1952) is an American actor. His notable roles include Duane Duke in Psycho III (1986), Pete Verill in Clint Eastwood's White Hunter Black Heart (1990), Jobe Smith in The Lawnmower Man (1992), and Captain Frank Lapidus on the ABC series Lost (2008–2010).
The film was initially released in VHS video format on May 27, 1992. [32] The Region 1 Code widescreen edition of the film was released on DVD in the United States on September 2, 2003 and includes a digital transfer soundtrack remastered in Dolby Digital 5.1, interactive menus, Eastwood film highlights, scene access, and the theatrical trailer ...
White Hunter, a 1938 book by J. A. Hunter about African safaris; White Hunter, a 1936 American film about a safari guide; White Hunter, 1957 British television series, based on the above noted book by J. A. Hunter; White Hunter Black Heart, a 1990 American film about the making of a film in the early 1950s in Africa
Despite its positive reception, Bird was a commercial failure, only grossing $2.2 million in North America, Eastwood's worst-performing film since Breezy, and his third least-successful film overall; Breezy earned $200,000, while White Hunter Black Heart earned $2 million at the box office.
Call Me Bwana was released to VHS by MGM/UA Home Video on 2 March 1993, which was available exclusively through Warner Home Video worldwide and was also released to DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on 27 June 2011 via MGM Limited Edition Collection as a MOD (manufacture-on-demand) widescreen Region 1 DVD.
Although the origins of the phrase cannot be confirmed, the first European to go by the title of "white hunter" is generally considered to have been Alan Black. Black was hired in the 1890s by Lord Delamere. Delamere employed both Alan Black and a native Somali hunter to lead safaris in Somaliland. As the story goes, in order to avoid confusion ...