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Stanley and Livingstone
He succeeded in the maddest quest in History...because one girl believed in him!
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
- Original title
- Stanley and Livingstone
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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Jun 22, 2022 · via TMDB
Spencer Tracy is on top form in this story of the British-born American journalist Henry Stanley who is despatched by his editor into the uncharted reaches of the African interior to track down the famed explorer David Livingstone, rumours of whose death having been reported by reputable British newspapers. Armed with plenty of money and his reliable sidekick "Slocum" (Walter Brennan) they set off and with some help from the rather fever-ridden British consul in Zanzibar find themselves crossing Africa staring the most beautiful and dangerous travails head on. The screenplay is based in fact, as we all know, so there is little jeopardy in regard to the results of their trekking, but the film takes it's time to develop a bit more of a look into what motivates both men, and how these motivations evolve as their exposure to the dark content and it's peoples moulds and changes opinions and priorities. Sir Cedric Hardwicke is convincing as the missionary explorer who has an innate, if middle-class, decency about him, as is Charles Coburn (Lord Tyce), the publisher of a rival newspaper all too eager for Stanley to fall flat. Though one could never describe him as versatile, the usually charismatic Brennan delivers consistently too. The on-location filming gives us a grand scale vista of their escapades and Tracy and Hardwicke's thoughtful and considered delivery makes this well worth a watch.
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Spencer Tracy
Henry M. Stanley
Nancy Kelly
Eve Kingsley
Richard Greene
Gareth Tyce
Walter Brennan
Jeff Slocum
Charles Coburn
Lord Tyce
Cedric Hardwicke
Dr. David Livingstone
Henry Hull
James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
Henry Travers
John Kingsley
Miles Mander
Sir John Gresham
David Torrence
Mr. Cranston
Holmes Herbert
Frederick Holcomb
C. Montague Shaw
Sir Oliver French
Brandon Hurst
Sir Henry Forrester
Paul Harvey
Colonel Grimes
Russell Hicks
Commissioner
Frank Dae
Commissioner
Everett Brown
Bongo
Bobby Burns
Geographical Society Delegate
Joseph Crehan
Morehead
Vernon Dent
Newspaperman in Office
William R. Dunn
Chuma
Harry Harvey
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Darby Jones
Chewing Native
Anthony Marsh
Messenger
Robert Middlemass
Carmichael
Frank Orth
Newspaperman with Pills
Harry Strang
Captain
Emmett Vogan
Albert
Henry King
Director
Barbara McLean
Editor
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer
Philip Dunne
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