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Article: Film's lions safe behind Field glass
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 11, 1996
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If you plan to see the new movie "The Ghost and the Darkness,"
starring Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, and still don't know how it
ends, skip this item.
The Field Museum, at Roosevelt and Lake Shore Drive, is home to
the stuffed remains of the lions of Tsavo, whose man-eating rampage
in 1898 inspired the movie. The two large males, which killed nearly
140 railway workers building a bridge over the Tsavo River in East
Africa, have been on display here since the 1920s.
"The Ghost and the Darkness" is the story of Lt. Col. John
Henry Patterson, the British engineer who was charged with building a
portion of the railroad and wound up tracking the lions that were
decimating his work force. ...