Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

• Paramount Pictures
• Douglas/Reuther Productions
• Michael Douglas
• Val Kilmer
• Tom Wilkinson
• John Kani
• Emily Mortimer
• Bernard Hill
• Brian McCardie
• Om Puri