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MOGAMBO
July 2, 2012  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

Alfred Hitchcock once remade one of his old movies with a new cast, but this 1953 film is just as much of a revisited rarity. Mogambo is  a John Ford remake of 1932’s Red Dust, a Victor Fleming film about a rubber plantation owner torn between two newly arrived women: an opportunistic showgirl seductress, and the alluring wife of a visiting surveyor. In Red Dust, the two women were played, respectively, by Jean Harlow and Mary Astor. In Mogambo, the women are played, instead, by Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly (pictured). But in both movies, made more than 20 years apart, the plantation owner is played by the same actor: Clark Gable.

 
 
 
 
 
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