The Ghost and the Darkness

Plot

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

Cast

Michael Douglas

Charles Remington

Val Kilmer

Col. John Henry Patterson

Tom Wilkinson

Sir Robert Beaumont

John Kani

Samuel

Emily Mortimer

Helena Patterson

Bernard Hill

Dr. David Hawthorne

Brian McCardie

Angus Starling

Om Puri

Abdullah

Jack Devnarain

Nervous Sikh Orderly

Henry Cele

Mahina

Kurt Egelhof

Indian Victim

Satchu Annamalai

Worker

Teddy Reddy

Worker

Raheem Khan

Worker

Glen Gabela

Orderly