The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film) Quotes

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . The Snows of Kilimanjaro completed its run in 1970.

It features Darryl F. Zanuck as producer, Bernard Herrmann in charge of musical score, and Leon Shamroy as head of cinematography.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film) is distributed by Twentieth Century Fox.

The cast includes: Hildegard Knef as Countess Liz, Charles Bates as Harry Street, Leo G. Carroll as Uncle Bill, Ava Gardner as Cynthia Green, Torin Thatcher as Johnson, Susan Hayward as Helen, and Leonard Carey as Dr. Simmons.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952 film) Quotes

Leonard Carey as Dr. Simmons

• (Leonard Carey) "Do you actually mean you didn't know about the child? Don't you people talk to each other?"

Leo G. Carroll as Uncle Bill

• (Leo G. Carroll) "A man should never lose his hand at hunting."

Hildegard Knef as Countess Liz

• (Hildegard Knef) "I love you as much as I can."

• (Hildegard Knef) "Oh, I just devoured your last book."
• (Charles Bates) "Well, I hope it didn't give you a bellyache."

Charles Bates as Harry Street

• (Charles Bates) "Doctors? It was a wise man who said that if all the medicines were dumped into the sea, it would be a horrible day for the fishes?"

• (Charles Bates) "I suppose it was the elusiveness of Liz which was her main attraction. She was something to hunt down and trap and capture. The Countess Elizabeth; Frigid Liz; the semi-iceerg from the semi-tropics."

• (Charles Bates) "I wonder if there'll be another time as good as this."

• (Charles Bates) "Darling, there's a war going on there."
• (Ava Gardner) "There's a war goung on here too right at this table. There's a dandy little war going on."

• (Charles Bates) "And there was never another time like that first time in Africa."

Ava Gardner as Cynthia Green

• (Ava Gardner) "What is the matter with me, Mr. Johnson?"
• (Torin Thatcher) "Everybody isn't required to like Africa, you know."
• (Ava Gardner) "I try to put on a show because I know he loves it so. But all of it; the hunting, the killing; terrifies me."
• (Torin Thatcher) "See here, this thing that he was talking about; the excitement; call it courage. The way he feels, it is a man's feeling, natural in a man, grows in a man, and makes him a man. Not particularly to his credit if he has it but something lacking if he hasn't. A woman shows her courage in other ways,; many ways."

• (Ava Gardner) "Darling, I was so wrong about the child. I know that God would punish me."

• (Ava Gardner) "Hasn't that African got any piety at all?"

Torin Thatcher as Johnson

• (Torin Thatcher) "Why is it everyone who comes to Africa has to write a book about it? One silly beggar even dedicated his to me. Never came back or I'd have shot him in the pants."

Susan Hayward as Helen

• (Susan Hayward) "Hello, Molo, you white man's burden, you."
• (Susan Hayward) "Darling, we only got the first aid book."
• (Charles Bates) "What's he going to do, sprinkle me with monkey dust?"
• (Susan Hayward) "Darling."
• (Charles Bates) "A hair from the tail of a leopard?"

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