Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
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.
Directors:
Henry King, Otto Brower.
Writers:
Philip Dunne, Julien Josephson.
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Spencer Tracy as Henry M. Stanley |
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Nancy Kelly as Eve Kingsley |
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Richard Greene as Gareth Tyce |
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Walter Brennan as Jeff Slocum |
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Charles Coburn as Lord Tyce |
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Cedric Hardwicke as Dr. David Livingstone |
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Henry Hull as James Gordon Bennett, Jr. |
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Henry Travers as John Kingsley |
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Miles Mander as Sir John Gresham |
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David Torrence as Mr. Cranston |
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Holmes Herbert as Frederick Holcomb |
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C. Montague Shaw as Sir Oliver French |
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Brandon Hurst as Sir Henry Forrester |
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Hassan Said as Hassan |
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Paul Harvey as Colonel Grimes |
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Russell Hicks as Commissioner |
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Frank Dae as Commissioner |
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Ernest Baskett as Zucco |
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William E. 'Red' Blair as Sergeant |
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Everett Brown as Bongo |
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Bobby Burns as Geographical Society Delegate |
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Jack Clisby as Mombay |
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Tom Coleman as Corporal |
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Joseph Crehan as Morehead |
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Vernon Dent as Newspaperman in Office |
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Clarence Derwent as Sir Francis Vane |
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William R. Dunn as Chuma |
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Harry Harvey as Newspaperman at Water Barrel |
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Frank Jaquet as Senator |
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Darby Jones as Chewing Native |
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Eric Lonsdale as Reporter at Dock |
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Anthony Marsh as Messenger |
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James McNamara as Committeeman |
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Robert Middlemass as Carmichael |
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Clive Morgan as Reporter at Dock |
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Frank Orth as Newspaperman with Pills |
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Imboden Parrish as Reporter at Dock |
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Speirs Ruskell as Messenger |
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Emmett Smith as Susi |
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Dick Stanley as Lieutenant |
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Harry Strang as Captain |
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F. Philip Sylvestre as Messenger |
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Emmett Vogan as Albert |
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Billy Watson as Billy Watson |
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William B. Williams as Mace |
| Directing | Henry King | Director |
| Directing | Otto Brower | Director |
| Writing | Philip Dunne | Screenplay |
| Writing | Julien Josephson | Screenplay |
| Production | Darryl F. Zanuck | Producer |
| Editing | Barbara McLean | Editor |
| Art | William S. Darling | Art Direction |
| Art | George Dudley | Art Direction |
| Art | Thomas Little | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Royer | Costume Design |
| Camera | George Barnes | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Karl Herlinger | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Harold Hobson | Sound Assistant |
| Art | William Sittel | Assistant Property Master |