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Mountains of the Moon (1990) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1990 · 136 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Bob Rafelson
- Starring
- Matthew Marsh, Richard E. Grant, Anna Massey, Adrian Rawlins, Delroy Lindo, Fiona Shaw
Two strangers forge a bond in a hostile wilderness, only to become rivals under civilization. Captain Richard Francis Burton and Lieutenant John Hanning Speke lead a Victorian mission to locate the Nile’s source for Queen Victoria’s empire. Their friendship deepens amid hardship and then collapses as rivalry and conflicting claims arise.
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