White Hunter, Black Heart - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[kyle]

This movie was released thirty-nine years after John Huston's The African Queen (1951) had premiered, and about thirteen years after its made-for-television sequel of the same name The African Queen (1977) was broadcast.

[ivan]

The elephant gun used by John Wilson (Clint Eastwood) was a Holland & Holland Double Rifle, a.k.a. a double-barreled elephant magnum. It's been valued at being worth £65,000. The manufacturers made the real-life gun that John Huston used while filming The African Queen (1951) in Africa in 1951. According to a May 1990 interview with production designer John Graysmark in "Cue International", the production took great care of the firearm during the shoot and sold it back to the gun-makers at the end of principal photography, "unharmed, unscratched, (and) unused."

[ronnie]

Clint Eastwood's twentieth movie for Warner Brothers.

[liam]

His work on the screenplay became the final movie work for James Bridges.

[jim]

Wilson has a chronic cough and his health is poor. In real life, John Huston was suffering from emphysema because he smoked far too much. His excessive smoking and drinking would eventually kill him.

[carl]

French visa # 73360.

[kenneth]

In the documentary Biography: Clint Eastwood: The Man from Malpaso (1994), Eastwood states how (in real life) he never knew John Huston.

[lonnie]

Finnish certificate register # 96692 delivered on 10-5-1990.

[wallace]

The main character, John Wilson, portrayed by Clint Eastwood, was based on legendary director John Huston; Jeff Fahey's Pete Verrill writer character was based on novelist Peter Viertel; George Dzundza's Paul Landers producer character was based on producer Sam Spiegel; Marisa Berenson's Kay Gibson character was based on Katharine Hepburn, and Richard Vanstone's Phil Duncan character was based on Humphrey Bogart.

[ava]

This movie was entered into competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1990. To attend its screenings there, Clint Eastwood halted production on The Rookie (1990) for five days. Reportedly, this cost an estimated $1.5 million. Also, while at Cannes, Eastwood fulfilled his life-long ambition of meeting Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, who had directed Yojimbo (1961), on which Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (1964), starring Eastwood, had been based.

[caroline]

When Paul Landers (George Dzundza) hears that the rain will continue for another week, he grabs a large sheet of paper, screws it up and throws it away. It was almost certainly the production shooting schedule, which would have had to be completely re-planned if there was going to be a week's delay.

[linda]

This movie was shot during the summer of 1989. The production shoot for this movie went for about two months, filmed during June, July, and August 1989.

[albert]

Clive Mantle (Harry) earns the title distinction of being the only ever person to successfully beat up Clint Eastwood on the big screen. Mantle was around half Clint's age and reportedly struggled to keep up with Eastwood during the shooting of the sequence.

[brent]

The small steamboat that they used in the whitewater scene is the same boat that Humphrey Bogart's character captained in The African Queen (1951). The boat used for the scenes in the rapids was electrically powered, but was made to appear to be steam-powered by fitting it with engines and motors developed by special effects expert John Evans. The glass fiber boat was built in England and shipped to Zimbabwe especially for the movie.

[cassandra]

"Slate 1 - Take 1" for shooting this movie's movie-within-a-movie, "The African Trader", was dated February 14, 1951. In real life, The African Queen (1951), which is the movie represented by "The African Trader" in this movie, didn't actually start shooting until May 1951.