---
title: 'The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Stephen Hopkins'
released: '1996-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 109
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Action'
  - 'Horror'
  - 'Adventure'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-ghost-and-the-darkness-1996'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116409/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

1996 · 109 min · Drama, Action, Horror, Adventure · United States


## Synopsis

The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 American historical adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The screenplay, written by William Goldman, is a fictionalized account of the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of lions that terrorized workers in and around Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway in East Africa in 1898.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Stephen Hopkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-hopkins)
- **Screenplay:** [Stephen Hopkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/stephen-hopkins), [William Goldman](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-goldman)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Jerry Goldsmith](https://cinepixo.com/people/jerry-goldsmith)
- **Producer:** [Gale Anne Hurd](https://cinepixo.com/people/gale-anne-hurd)
- **Director of Photography:** [Vilmos Zsigmond](https://cinepixo.com/people/vilmos-zsigmond)
- **Editor:** [Sally Menke](https://cinepixo.com/people/sally-menke)

## Cast

- [Brian McCardie](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-mccardie)
- [Michael Douglas](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-douglas)
- [Bernard Hill](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-hill)
- [Om Puri](https://cinepixo.com/people/om-puri)
- [Emily Mortimer](https://cinepixo.com/people/emily-mortimer)
- [Val Kilmer](https://cinepixo.com/people/val-kilmer) as John Henry Patterson
- [Tom Wilkinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-wilkinson)
- [John Kani](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-kani)
- [Henry Cele](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-cele)

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