Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

bkoganbing If what I saw in this film was a sample of John Huston's behavior than I don't know how he lasted as long as he did in the film industry. This film based on a novel by Peter Viertel purports to show some of the difficulties in getting Huston to settle down and make the African Queen.White Hunter, Black Heart will never go down as one of Clint Eastwood's better projects. According to the film, protagonist John Wilson is having a touch of Hemingway, he's in Africa and what do they do in Africa, but go on safari. Eastwood's made his mind up that he's got to go toe to toe with a bull elephant before shooting it.All this is chronicled by Jeff Fahey playing the author who narrates the film and from whose eyes we see all the action. And studio boss George Dzundza is about to tear the hair from his head with all the delays and Eastwood's procrastination. Dzundza is almost a caricature of the Jewish studio moguls of the time, but frankly my sympathies were with him. In real life he'd have canned Eastwood and brought in another director to get the film made.This was an important step for the American film industry. 20 years earlier with Trader Horn MGM shot that one with all kinds of problems shooting there in the tropics by people who weren't used to it. The African Queen and King Solomon's Mines set a new standard because the public did not want to see cheap back lot jungle sets any longer. So Dzundza has a lot riding on it.I have to say that this particular Clint Eastwood project did not please me.

bustedknee Generally, I steer clear of movies about movies but when Clint Eastwood is involved and hunting in Africa is involved, well, pop some corn, sweetheart, I'm gonna prop my feet on the coffee table.Eastwood is so convincing in this role I plumb forgot he is my favorite western character, Josey Wales.I suspect the fact that John wanted to kill an elephant turned some viewers off and that is a shame for they missed a great performance, in which no elephants were killed. I have been a hunter all my life and when John said, "It's a passion that's beyond you. I'd have to explain to you the sound of the wind and the smell of the woods. I'd have to create you all over again. . . .and stamp out those years you spent on the dirty pavement in cramped shoes." we connected and there was a tear in my eye.And this is what a true artist does...he relays an emotion, from the writer to the reader; from the singer to the listener; from the actor to the viewer. I predict White Hunter Black Heart will gain popularity as time goes by.

billcr12 In Clint Eastwood's thinly veiled portrait of director John Huston's making of The African Queen, he plays John Wilson, who has traveled to Africa to make a movie. He instead becomes obsessed with tracking down and killing an elephant. A writer accompanying him, Pete Verrill(Jeff Fahey), is adamantly opposed to the idea of shooting such a magnificent animals. They argue over the morality of hunting for the sport of it.Eastwood shows the philosophical aspects of his characters quest. The white hunter with the black heart is within all of us. Everything we strive for has a price to pay, sometimes big and sometimes small, but always there. As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for. I believe that Black Hunter White Heart may well be Clint Eastwood's most underrated film.

Petri Pelkonen Director John Wilson goes to Africa to make his next film.With him is a young writer named Pete Verrill.The making of the movie becomes harder when John develops an obsession of killing an elephant.Even though he knows it's not just a crime against nature to do such a deed, but a sin.Clint Eastwood, who turned 80 earlier this year, is the director of White Hunter, Black Heart (1990).The story is obviously based on the experiences of John Huston when he went to make The African Queen.Clint does a great job in the lead as John Hus...I mean Wilson.Jeff Fahey is terrific as Pete Verrill.Charlotte Cornwell is very good as Miss Wilding.George Dzundza is superb as Paul Landers.Eastwood, who still keeps working like crazy, has made better pictures than this.But still, it's pretty entertaining to watch this African adventure.