Hatari! is a 1962 American film directed by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne.

The plot involves a group of trappers catching wild animals in Africa and selling them to zoos. A female wildlife photographer arrives to take photos of the captures for the zoo which will be buying the bulk of that season's captures, and in the process becomes known as Momma Tambo (Mother of Elephants) due to some baby elephants that she takes care of.

The film gathers its several characters from different parts of the world: Sean Mercer (John Wayne), Anna Maria 'Dallas' D'Allesandro (Elsa Martinelli), Kurt Mueller (Hardy Krüger), Charles 'Chips' Maurey (Gerard Blain), Luis Francisco Garcia Lopez (Valentin De Vargas) are, respectively, from USA, Italy, Germany, France and Mexico. The title means "danger" in Swahili, which was mentioned in the film as well.

Hatari! has a very loose script and, like many other major works of Hawks, is principally structured on the relationships between the characters. It does have exciting scenes with the trappers chasing animals in jeeps across the African plains. The chased animals are also all live, wild, and untrained, something that would never be allowed today.

The script, indeed, was written by Hawks' favorite writer, Leigh Brackett, after the group returned from Africa with the hunting scenes. Although the movie rightly belongs among her better works, like Rio Bravo and Red River.

Hawks has stated in interviews that he had originally planned to star both Clark Gable and Wayne in the film until Gable's death two years before the film was finally produced ruled that out.

Hatari! introduced the memorable Henry Mancini tune "Baby Elephant Walk".

John Wayne and his ensemble cast cavort over the African landscape filling orders from zoos for wild animals. Bruce Cabot plays "the Indian", a womanizing sharpshooter who is gored by a rhino in the opening scenes of the film. This becomes a running theme through the movie; their bad luck in catching rhinos, and provides the climactic ending chase. While Bruce is in the hospital, Elsa Martinelli shows up as a woman photographer from a Swiss zoo, and John wants to send her packing. She strongarms the Duke into letting her stay by promising that her zoo will buy most of their animals this season if she's allowed to go along on the hunts and take photos. Hardy Kruger, Gerard Blain, Michelle Girardon and Valentin de Vargas round out the group. They traipse over the African landscape capturing animals; Elsa also has a running gag where she collects baby elephants as the movie goes along. In the end she's acquired three of them. Written by Marta Dawes