The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952) | Directed by Henry King - Full Movie

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.Show more

The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a 1952 American Technicolor film based on the 1936 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. It is directed by Henry King, written by Casey Robinson, and starred Gregory Peck as Harry Street, Susan Hayward as Helen, and Ava Gardner as Cynthia Green (a character invented for the film). The film's ending does not mirror the story's ending.

Considered by Hemingway to be one of his finest stories, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" was first published in Esquire magazine in 1936 and then republished in The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938).

Directed by: Henry King
Screenplay by: Casey Robinson
Based on "The Snows of Kilimanjaro 1936 story by Ernest Hemingway
Produced by: Darryl F. Zanuck
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Susan Hayward
Cinematography: Leon Shamroy
Edited by: Barbara McLean
Music by: Bernard Herrmann
Distributed by: Twentieth Century Fox
Release date: September 17, 1952 (New York), October 23, 1952 (US)
Running time: 117 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $3,000,000
Box office: $6.5–$12.5 million