The Last Lion

Starring the gravelly-voiced and tough-faced British actor Jack Hawkins, and with a screenplay by bestselling author Wilbur Smith, The Last Lion is an adventure about the epic duel between a hunter and a lion. 　　A gravely ill American millionaire, Ryk Mannering, is in Africa on a final hunting expedition to track down and shoot a proud male lion, the leader of a pride. This lion has always eluded Mannering, who has trophy-hunted more than 80 lions, and the hunter has become obsessed with the animal. 　　Mannering hires a private doctor to keep him alive, and pays a local hunter to track down the lion. When Mannering ruthlessly kills a lioness with cubs, he infuriates both the hunter and the doctor. But he drives them mercilessly to hunt down the gracious male. In a fit of delirium he kills his quarry ?? and then collapses and dies himself.