White Hunter Black Heart price, as the local animal tracker Kivu is killed protecting him from an elephant Wilson decides not to shoot. At times, Eastwood, as the John Huston-like character of John Wilson, can be heard drawing out his vowels, speaking in Huston's distinctive style. The film was shot on location in Kariba, Zimbabwe and surrounds including at Lake Kariba, Victoria Falls and Hwange, over two months in the summer of 1989. Some interiors were shot in and around Pinewood Studios in England. The boat used in the film was constructed in England of glass fibre and shipped to Africa for filming. It
Clint Eastwood in the 1970s of Josey Wales with his Man With No Name character in his Dollars westerns and praised the atmosphere of the film. The film was awarded a 97% rating on the critical website Rotten Tomatoes. After "The Outlaw Josey Wales", Eastwood was offered the role of Benjamin L. Willard in Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" but declined as he did not want to spend weeks in the Philippines shooting it. He was offered the part of a platoon leader in Ted Post's Vietnam War film, "Go Tell the Spartans". Eastwood refused the part and Burt Lancaster played the character instead. Eastwood was