TMDb Rating
6.3/10
22 verified votes
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
AdventureHistory
101 min
"He succeeded in the maddest quest in History...because one girl believed in him!"
Plot Summary
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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Keywords to include
AdventureHistoryHenry KingSpencer TracyNancy Kelly1939
Director
Henry King
Top Cast
Spencer TracyNancy KellyRichard GreeneWalter BrennanCharles Coburn
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