The Last Lion

The Last Lion (1972)

Terminally ill millionaire tries to kill a lion before he dies.

Date of release
1972-05-29
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Adventure
Director
Elmo De Witt

Casting

Interesting facts

The Last Lion is a 1972 South African action film directed by Elmo De Witt and starring Jack Hawkins, Karen Spies and Dawid Van Der Walt. The screenplay was written by Wilbur Smith, one of his rare original screenplays. He used a similar story later on in his novel A Time to Die.

Production

Smith had already written one original screenplay and this was a later one. However he eventually realised he disliked writing scripts and focused on novels.

The film was based on a 1921 novel Uit oerwoud en vlakte by South African author Sangiro (a pen name for Andries Albertus Pienaar (1894 - 1979). The novel had been the subject of a plagiarism action by German author Frits Bronsart von Schellendorf.

Filming took place in December 1971 at Ossie Bristow's Le Rhone Ranch near Rhodesia.

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