Stanley and Livingstone

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

6.419391h 41m

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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.

StatusReleased

Release Date1939-08-18

Runtime1h 41m

LanguagesEnglish

CountriesUnited States of America

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Cast & Crew

Spencer Tracy

as Henry M. Stanley

Nancy Kelly

as Eve Kingsley

Richard Greene

as Gareth Tyce

Walter Brennan

as Jeff Slocum

Charles Coburn

as Lord Tyce

Cedric Hardwicke

as Dr. David Livingstone

Henry Hull

as James Gordon Bennett, Jr.

Henry Travers

as John Kingsley

Miles Mander

as Sir John Gresham

David Torrence

as Mr. Cranston

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Jun 22, 2022

7/10

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 reliab…

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