Description

The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 1952 American Technicolor film based on the The Snows of Kilimanjaro (short story) by Ernest Hemingway. The film version of the short story was directed by Henry King (director), written by Casey Robinson, and starred Gregory Peck as Harry, Susan Hayward as Helen, and Ava Gardner as Cynthia Green (a character invented for the film). The film’s ending does not mirror the book’s ending.

Considered by Hemingway to be one of his finest stories, “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” was first published in Esquire (magazine) magazine in 1936 and then republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938).

Cast

• Gregory Peck as Harry Street
• Susan Hayward as Helen
• Ava Gardner as Cynthia Green
• Hildegard Knef as Countess Elizabeth
• Emmett Smith as Molo
• Leo G. Carroll as Uncle Bill
• Torin Thatcher as Mr. Johnson
• Marcel Dalio as Emile
• Leonard Carey as Dr. Simmons
• Paul Thompson as Witch Doctor
• Ava Norring as Beatrice
• Helene Stanley as Connie
• Vicente Gómez as Guitarist (as Vicente Gomez)
• Richard Allan as Spanish Dancer