Stanley and Livingstone( 1939)

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He succeeded in the maddest quest in History...because one girl believed in him!

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

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
Hassan Said
Hassan
Paul Harvey
Colonel Grimes
Russell Hicks
Commissioner
Frank Dae
Commissioner
Ernest Baskett
Zucco
William E. 'Red' Blair
Sergeant
Everett Brown
Bongo
Bobby Burns
Geographical Society Delegate
Jack Clisby
Mombay
Tom Coleman
Corporal
Joseph Crehan
Morehead
Vernon Dent
Newspaperman in Office
Clarence Derwent
Sir Francis Vane
William R. Dunn
Chuma
Harry Harvey
Newspaperman at Water Barrel
Frank Jaquet
Senator
Darby Jones
Chewing Native
Eric Lonsdale
Reporter at Dock
Anthony Marsh
Messenger
James McNamara
Committeeman
Robert Middlemass
Carmichael
Clive Morgan
Reporter at Dock
Frank Orth
Newspaperman with Pills
Imboden Parrish
Reporter at Dock
Speirs Ruskell
Messenger
Emmett Smith
Susi
Dick Stanley
Lieutenant
Harry Strang
Captain
F. Philip Sylvestre
Messenger
Emmett Vogan
Albert
Billy Watson
Billy Watson
William B. Williams
Mace

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Jun 22 2022

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, a...