Stanley and Livingstone

“He succeeded in the maddest quest in History...because one girl believed in him!”

6.3(22)19391h 41m

AdventureHistory

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.

Director

Otto Brower

Cast

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

Reviews

1 review

Geronimo1967

3y ago

7.0

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...