Son of a gun, I watched Hatari! just last night. Two hours and 37 minutes of exciting animal capture scenes and John Wayne, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Marinelli, Gerard Blain, Bruce Cabot, Michele Girardon, Red Buttons, et. al. smoking & drinking. I was/am hopelessly in love with Miss Martinelli.
Yeah I was 11 when I saw Hatari. Elsa was a great way to jump start a boy’s pubescent thinking patterns!
Watched it recently, I almost felt out of breath watching the constant chain smoking they all did. Still fashionable in 1962.
Also if you are into JEEPS.
There is something about a woman who smoked like that LOL.
Yeah all the old movies of a certain age, there was a lot of smoking and drinking. In “Hatari” they all look like they are having a great time. I think I read that everyone on the set did have a lot of fun on that picture.
A few years back I worked at Walmart and ran, among other departments, the electronics department. We had strung together a lot of TV’s, different screen sizes, and had a DVD player jacked in and had been showing the fare we had. Well one Saturday I brought my DVD copy of “Hatari” in and played it. It was amazing, all these little kids were watching the movie as they had never seen a picture like that and a lot adults were watching to. It was great see that a fine picture like that can still find an audience today.
