Spanish title: Mogambo
Stars: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
Directed by: John Ford
Distributor: MGM Mexico

"A battle of the sexes… and a battle against the gorillas!"

This lobby card for the Sam Zimbalist-produced multi-Oscar nominated jungle feature is in incredible shape. No pinholes, no tears, nice thick cardboard; in fact, if not for a couple of slightly dinged corners, you’d call this a mint condition antique lobby card.

The paintwork is incredible in parts, awful in others. For example, the image depicting Gable and Gardner in a deep embrace is done beautifully, but am I the only one who wonders why the fat gorilla is wearing bright red lipstick?

Either way, this is not a bad film. Mogambo was famous for the studio actually having filmed a large part of it in location, leading to get production values, incredible shots, and even a little controversy when Clark Gable took the role out from under Stewart Granger, and then started a romance with his co-star, leading to him walking off the set to protest her treatment by director John Ford.

One interesting piece of trivia – in the spanish language version, censors apparently felt that the Gable/Gardner affair on the screen was too racy, so they changed their dialogue to make them brother and sister… which led to confusion among movie audiences during the scene where they share a bed.