Stanley and Livingstone
(DVD)

Originally released as a motion picture in 1939.

Credits supplied from: AFI catalog, 1931-1940.

Dialogue director, Lionel Bevans; safari episodes directed by Otto Brower; safari episodes technical director, Mrs. Martin Johnson; assistant directors, Robert Webb, Henry Weinberger, and Jack McEdwards; photography, George Barnes; gaffer, L.V. Johnson; safari episodes photography, Sidney Wagner; process photography, Sol Halprin; camera operator, Irving Rosenberg; assistant cameraman, Jack Warren; special effects, Louis J. Witte; art directors, William Darling and George Dudley; film editor, Barbara McLean; assistant cutters, Bob Fritch and Dick Billings; set decorations, Thomas Little; assistants, props, Jack Stubbs and William Sittell; costumes, Royer; wardrobe, Bob Lee and Ollie Hughes; music director, Louis Silvers; music advisor, Paul McVey; sound, Alfred Bruzlin and Roger Heman; assistant, sound, H.R. Hobson; boom, Harry Roberts; hair, Buddy King; makeup, Karl Herlinger and Newton House; technical advisor, Harold Lloyd Morris; screenplay clerks, Max Larey and Teresa Brachetto; grip, C.E. Richardson; props, Joe Behm; chief white hunter, A.J. Klein; cableman, M. Braggins; best boy, Ferdinand Meine; unit casting, Walter Whaley; assistant casting, Owen McLean; secretary, Rose Moser. Song: Onward Christian soldiers, music and lyrics by A.S. Sullivan. Music: The departure by David Buttolph.

Spencer Tracy (Henry M. Stanley); Nancy Kelly (Eve Kingsley); Richard Greene (Gareth Tyce); Walter Brennan (Jeff Slocum); Charles Coburn (Lord Tyce); Sir 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); Montague Shaw (Sir Oliver French); Brandon Hurst (Sir Henry Forrester); Hassan Said (Hassan); Paul Harvey (Colonel Grimes); Russell Hicks and Frank Dae (commissioners); Paul Stanton (David Webb); Joseph Crehan (Morehead); Robert Middlemass (Carmichael); Frank Jaquet (senator); Clarence Derwent (Sir Francis Vane); William A. Williams (Mace); Ernest Baskett (Zuco); Emmett Vogan (Bennett's secretary); James McNamara (committeeman); William Dunn (Chuma); Emmett Smith (Susi); Jack Clisby (Mombay); Dick Stanley (lieutenant); Tom Coleman (corporal); William E. Red Blair (sergeant); Frank Orth (man with pills); Billy Watson (boy); Vernon Dent (newspaperman); Everett Brown (Bongo); F. Philip Sylvestre, Speirs Ruskell, Anthony Marsh (messengers); Eric Lonsdale and Clive Morgan (reporters); Imboden Parrish, Harry Harvey.

According to news items in the Hollywood reporter and Fox publicity materials contained in the production files at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Library, in 1937, Osa Johnson and Otto Brower led a camera crew through Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda, following the footsteps of Livingstone. They returned with 100,000 feet of exposed film. American locations were shot at Sun Valley, Idaho, and Victorville, California.

"In the 1800's, Henry M. Stanley, a reporter for James Gordon Bennett, Jr., of the New York herald, emerges from the snowbound Comanche country bearing an exclusive interview with a rampaging Indian chief. Back in New York, Bennett impresses Stanley with the importance of finding long-missing British doctor David Livingstone in Africa, the biggest news story in the world. Stanley accepts the assignment and, accompanied by Indian scout Jeff Slocum, voyages to Zanzibar, where he meets Eve Kingsley. Fearful of the ravages that Africa has visited upon her late mother and enfeebled father, Eve urges him to give up the mission. Stanley ignores Eve's advice and assembles a safari. Pushing westward, the safari is beset by hostile native attacks and ravaged by fever, but just as things seem hopeless, natives bring word of Livingstone's location. With renewed hope, Stanley pushes on until he finds the doctor living in a native village, practicing medicine and preaching the gospel. To the reporter's surprise, Livingstone insists upon remaining in Africa to carry on his good works, and he gradually converts Stanley to his discipline. Believing that the curtains hiding Africa must be opened, the doctor shows Stanley maps of his previous explorations. After Livingstone is stricken with fever, Stanley returns to London, where he creates a world sensation with his stories of Livingstone's works. However, the British Geographical Society, influenced by the publisher of the London Globe, which has printed news of Livingstone's death, refuses to accept Stanley's evidence. As the society rejects Stanley's claims, word comes that Livingstone has died of fever, and as his last request he asked that Stanley carry on the work that he began. Honoring Livingstone's dying wish, Stanley gives up his job to return to Africa"--AFI catalog, 1931-1940.

MPAA rating : Not rated.

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