This is a 1962 movie filmed exclusively in Africa with the setting given as Kenya although other locations were used in the filming. The opening scene involves a pilot flying Rob, played by William Holden to a landing point which is the entrance area to a wildlife preserve. The scene itself portends to the wild side as he literally drops him off engines running and takes right back off into the sky. Rob is met by the one person in the vicinity who turns out to be his ex wife Christine played by Capucine. . The meeting is subdued yet a bit haunting that in this is a reunion that is years later as he is there in response to her letter that their daughter might be best taking a leave from the wilds of Africa with which she is being subsumed. Christine is looking good and fit and they compliment each other a bit but in low key fashion and you get the idea that there isn't a complete fad on the two of them as a couple. While the original split between them is only glossed over, she wanted Africa first and he wanted his hot shot career as a lawyer first in another continent. Subsequently we learn she is now married to John Bullit, the overseer of the preserve with whom she and her daughter reside. He had been a wild game hunter and this job was relatively low key for him but did involve large responsibilities included relations with locals who predominated the area. The daughter is now 11 and we learn that she roams the area into heavy duty locales that include a former pet lion that she grew up with named King. She has a local hired to follow her around with a rifle and the parents think she doesn't know this but she has all along and they are actually friends As it turns out though she does seem entranced or as the movie says bewitched by her abilities in the wild and her attachments to the natives while someone like her mother had a background from elsewhere and could temper her own wildness to that original locale in her thinking as her base which she moved from but her core identity was not Africa. This movie carries some amazing sequences including a rhino chase and elephant herd chase as Bullit takes them all out on the range The rhino seems really ticked off and is pretty fast as well. Same a bit later for one of the giant elephants. You wonder how they even filmed this and this is a quite a fantastic ride for wildlife in Africa and how these adventures pushed the envelope ever so close as to be quite dangerous as they certainly weren't dealing with tamed animals and it is their domain first. One neat scene shows a giraffe looking over the road as they get back to camp for lunch. A big reason to see this movie now is you just couldn't likely get these type of scene in 2015 into a film. As it turns out there is a decision to make not only about the daughter but for all the central players in this film as to whether it is time to break toward or break away and what that is going to mean, and the whole of the future for each of them will look quite different based on what is going to be decided.
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