Stanley and Livingstone

Stanley and Livingstone

101 mins | Adventure, History | Aug. 18, 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.

Stanley and Livingstone

101 mins | Adventure, History | Aug. 18, 1939

Stanley and Livingstone
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers 20th Century Fox
Original title Stanley and Livingstone
Directors Otto Brower, Henry King
Writers Philip Dunne, Julien Josephson

Cast

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

Holmes Herbert

as Frederick Holcomb

C. Montague Shaw

as Sir Oliver French

Brandon Hurst

as Sir Henry Forrester

Hassan Said

as Hassan

Paul Harvey

as Colonel Grimes

Russell Hicks

as Commissioner

Frank Dae

as Commissioner

Ernest Baskett

as Zucco

Everett Brown

as Bongo

Bobby Burns

as Geographical Society Delegate

Jack Clisby

as Mombay

Tom Coleman

as Corporal

Joseph Crehan

as Morehead

Vernon Dent

as Newspaperman in Office

Clarence Derwent

as Sir Francis Vane

William R. Dunn

as Chuma

Harry Harvey

as Newspaperman at Water Barrel

Frank Jaquet

as Senator

Darby Jones

as Chewing Native

Eric Lonsdale

as Reporter at Dock

Anthony Marsh

as Messenger

James McNamara

as Committeeman

Robert Middlemass

as Carmichael

Clive Morgan

as Reporter at Dock

Frank Orth

as Newspaperman with Pills

Imboden Parrish

as Reporter at Dock

Speirs Ruskell

as Messenger

Emmett Smith

as Susi

Dick Stanley

as Lieutenant

Harry Strang

as Captain

F. Philip Sylvestre

as Messenger

Emmett Vogan

as Albert

Billy Watson

as Billy Watson