Stanley and Livingstone - 1939 - Spencer Tracy - Video

The Story ...

Henry Stanley is a fearless newspaper reporter ready to do whatever it takes to get a story, regardless of any danger to his life. Colonel Grimes tells two peace commissioners sent from Washington DC that he cannot permit them to try to contact the Indians of the Wyoming Territory of 1870, as it would be suicidal, only to have Stanley emerge from the wilderness, escorted by a band of the natives and his guide, Jeff Slocum (Walter Brennan).

When Stanley returns to New York City, his employer, New York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett, Jr., gives him another near-impossible assignment. The London Globe has announced that an expedition headed by Gareth Tyce (Richard Greene), the son of the Globe's publisher, Lord Tyce (Charles Coburn), has verified that world-renowned missionary David Livingstone is dead. Bennett does not believe it, and would relish embarrassing his rival by proving the story wrong. It is a daunting task, searching the mostly unmapped interior of the "dark continent" for one man, but Stanley accepts the challenge.

On the boat trip to Zanzibar, Stanley makes a very unfavorable impression on fellow passenger Lord Tyce. Stanley meets Eve Kingsley (Nancy Kelly) and her father, John Kingsley (Henry Travers), the temporary head of the British authorities in Zanzibar. Eve has been seeing Gareth Tyce, recovering from his ordeal, in the hope of getting him to persuade his father to use his influence to have her father reassigned to a more healthy posting back in England. Eve warns Stanley about the dangers of Africa, but he is undeterred.

He, Slocum and a band of native bearers set out into uncharted territory. Months pass with no sign of hope, and Stanley's resolve begins to waver. He also realizes he is in love with Eve. Finally, however, two hunters tell him of a white man they call "doctor" in a village beside Lake Tanganyika. Though feverish, Stanley gets them to guide him there. He sees a white man waiting to greet him. "Dr. Livingstone ... I presume", Stanley hesitantly inquires.

It is indeed he .. the plot thickens ...

Credits :

Directed by : Henry King and Otto Brower (safari sequences)
Written by : Philip Dunne and Julien Josephson
Produced by : Darryl F. Zanuck and Kenneth Macgowan
Edited by : Barbara McLean
Production Company : 20th Century Fox
Distributed by : 20th Century Fox
Release Date : August 18, 1939

Genre : #adventuremovies - #dramamovies - #americanmovies

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 Sir Frederick Holcomb
C. Montague Shaw as Sir Oliver French (as Montague Shaw)
Brandon Hurst as Sir Henry Forrester
Hassan Said as Hassan
Paul Harvey as Colonel Grimes
Russell Hicks as Peace Commissioner
Frank Dae as Peace Commissioner

Film Information Source :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_and_Livingstone

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