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.
- 6.3
- 1939
- Released
- 1h 41m
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
CommissionerErnest Baskett
ZuccoWilliam E. 'Red' Blair
SergeantEverett Brown
Bongo
Bobby Burns
Geographical Society DelegateJack Clisby
MombayTom Coleman
Corporal
Joseph Crehan
Morehead
Vernon Dent
Newspaperman in OfficeClarence Derwent
Sir Francis Vane
William R. Dunn
Chuma
Harry Harvey
Newspaperman at Water BarrelFrank Jaquet
Senator
Darby Jones
Chewing NativeEric Lonsdale
Reporter at Dock
Anthony Marsh
MessengerJames McNamara
Committeeman
Robert Middlemass
CarmichaelClive Morgan
Reporter at Dock
Frank Orth
Newspaperman with PillsImboden Parrish
Reporter at DockSpeirs Ruskell
MessengerEmmett Smith
SusiDick Stanley
Lieutenant
Harry Strang
CaptainF. Philip Sylvestre
Messenger
Emmett Vogan
AlbertBilly Watson
Billy WatsonWilliam B. Williams
MaceReleased
en
- #africa
- #missionary
- #biography
- #explorer
- #19th century
Reviews
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