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67% Critic Match
The Macomber Affair
“Peck...Bennett...Hemingway...only all three together could create this electric love story...with a vengeance!”
6.7 / 10• 1947• 1h 29m•NR• English
AdventureDrama
Storyline
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Cast & Crew
Gregory Peck
Robert Wilson
Lead
Joan Bennett
Margaret Macomber
Robert Preston
Francis Macomber
Reginald Denny
Police Inspector
Jean Gillie
Aimee
Carl Harbord
Coroner
Frederick Worlock
Clerk
Vernon Downing
Reporter Logan
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Zoltan Korda's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Macomber Affair is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
