Val Kilmer as Colonel John Patterson and John Kani as Samuel in the 1996 production of

The Ghost and the Darkness.

Based on a true story the film deals with the hunt for two lions that took to killing the workers of a railroad construction project in East Africa c. 1896. The lions involved in the actual events can be seen today at the Field Museum in Chicago - safely stuffed.


Black and White Production Still
8 inches by 10 inches (28cm x 18cm)
Paramount Pictures
United States
1996