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Stanley and Livingstone

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

Duration

1h 41m

Release

18 Aug 1939

Country

United States

Language

English

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.

Plot

Tasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M. Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr. David Livingstone.

Cast

Spencer TracyNancy KellyRichard Greene

Ratings

Internet Movie Database: 7.0/10

Details

Director

Henry KingOtto Brower

Writers

Philip DunneJulien JosephsonHal Long
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