“Hatari!” in Swahili means “danger” and this film has plenty. Produced and filmed in 1962 in Africa, this film had Howard Hawks as the director. He originally had planned the film as a vehicle for both John Wayne and Clark Gable which was scuttled at the last minute by Gable’s death. Like all of Hawks’ films, this one is about relationships between the characters both humorous and serious with a lot of male bonding going on. The conflict comes in the guise of Elsa Martinelli’s dizzy role as a photographer who quickly adopts three baby elephants–or do they adopt her? The haunting theme from “Hatari!” by Henry Mancini evokes the wide arid spaces of Africa while the exotic percussion effects )with insistent rhythmic patterns) denotes the savagery of nature.
Posted on 04/04/2008
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