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Name: White Hunter, Black Heart
Released: 1990-9-14
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alun Armstrong, Marisa Berenson

White Hunter, Black Heart

PG
1h 52m
1990

83%

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Clint Eastwood stars and directs this drama about a film director with a powerful obsession that brushes everyone and everything else aside--an obsession that becomes ever more deadly. Based on the 1953 novel by Peter Viertel, White Hunter, Black Heart fictionalizes a relationship between Viertel and director John Huston during filming of The African Queen in the heart of Africa.

Director:

Clint Eastwood

Producer:

Clint Eastwood, David Valdes

Writer:

Peter Viertrel, James Bridges, Burt Kennedy

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alun Armstrong, Marisa Berenson, Timothy Spall, 7.Mel Martin

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

83%

Critics Consensus: White Hunter Black Heart is powerful, intelligent, and subtly moving, a fascinating meditation on masculinity and the insecurities of artists.

Reviews

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Rene Jordan

This, despite its irrefutable merits, was completely wrong from the start. [Full review in Spanish]

It's as if White Hunter, Black Heart had opened up the gap that exists in any Huston film between the playful surfaces and the depths beneath.

Shot on location in Nigeria, the movie hinges completely on Eastwood's performance, which is strained. The actordirector steps sharply out of character to attempt a baroque and unconvincing impersonation of the cantankerous Huston.

Eastwood's subject is wasted lives and wasted talent; Wilson's charisma and Hollywood's money prove irresistible, and their sheer power brings noteworthy results-but they emerge from a needless vortex of ruin.