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He succeeded in the maddest quest in History...because one girl believed in him! - Stanley and Livingstone
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Title: Stanley and Livingstone

Release Date: 18 Aug 1939

Runtime: 1h 41m

Genre: Adventure, History

Director: 20th Century Fox

Production Companies: 20th Century Fox

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.

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Average Vote: 6.4 (21 votes)

Cast

  • Henry M. Stanley: Spencer Tracy
  • Eve Kingsley: Nancy Kelly
  • Gareth Tyce: Richard Greene
  • Jeff Slocum: Walter Brennan
  • Lord Tyce: Charles Coburn
  • Dr. David Livingstone: Cedric Hardwicke
  • James Gordon Bennett, Jr.: Henry Hull
  • John Kingsley: Henry Travers
  • Sir John Gresham: Miles Mander
  • Mr. Cranston: David Torrence
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