The Macomber Affair

Peck...Bennett...Hemingway...only all three together could create this electric love story...with a vengeance!

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A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".

Released: Apr 20, 1947

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Gregory Peck

Robert Wilson

Joan Bennett

Margaret Macomber

Robert Preston

Francis Macomber

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