Poor Cynthia...Dr. to Peck"s character "Dont you 2 TALK to each other??"

On rewatching this moderately good movie (with wonderful color in most scenes), it seems Gregory Peck's character, the would-be great writer and big game hunter, and clueless-with women guy...
"needs" to damage/be damaged by a few women...till he "gets" it!

When he's very young, some distressed young woman runs crying...angry/upset with him...and Leo J. Carroll's character talks to him about...writing for a career. (Huh??? Not like///"Did you offend her? Can you at least apologize? Or otherwise learn from this???)

Leter (and yes I leave some other plot stuff out) he meets Cynthia...as fragile emotionally as she is beautiful. She tells one of his buddies "I'm pregnant"...but when she hints about the Baby idea...Peck (clueless) blows it off...so Fragile Cynthia deliberately falls down stairs to cause a miscarriage. That's when the hospital doctor, surprised he didn't even know she was pregnant says to Peck "Don't you two talk to each other?"

Women are book material for him...The next woman is a shallow, beautiful rich woman..."...She was something to hunt down, trap, and capture...the Countess Liz..." And his uncle comes in with more dry advice...with the goal to push him towards sincere writing.

As he lays sick in Africa apparently dying...he says to an aide that maybe it would be better if "we just paid some coins for a woman" and then turned her in if she was "unsatisfactory".

Again, there are other parts to the story...scenery is wonderful...

I'm just focusing on one strain...on his slow potential climb from Human Ape to Man who Finds a Woman who is both Good and Strong...and perhaps Sincere Writer...And he gets over Fragile Cynthia...whom he helped damage...she is off with other lovers who maybe will also dally with her...she doesn't seem to pick winners.

The story will resolve...Human Ape living by instinct regarding Women...starts to turn into a human being...but you will have to watch it on TV...