How old is that movie NJ? Can't believe I've never heard of it.
It was an older movie. Based on a true story and then written as a book:
"The Ghost and the Darkness" is based on the true story of the man-eating lions of Tsavo, recounted in John Henry Patterson's book "The Man-Eaters of Tsavo.”
In 1898, a pair of maneless male lions began terrorizing crews building the Kenya-Uganda Railway, killing and eating dozens of men over a span of about nine months. The lions became known as the “man-eaters of Tsavo” for their apparent dietary preference for humans, who they snatched from the railway camp at night.
John Henry Patterson, a railway administrator and a lieutenant colonel in the British Army, eventually shot and killed the two creatures, then wrote a book about the ordeal. The big cats’ bodies have been housed at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago since 1925.
