6.9
Hidalgo
2004
“He succeeded in the maddest quest in History...because one girl believed in him!”
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
August 18, 19391h 41mEN
6.4
23 votes
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.
Director
Henry KingWriters
Top Billed Cast
Status
Released
Original Language
English
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N/A
Revenue
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Production Companies
20th Century Fox
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7.0Spencer 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 and with some help from the rather fever-ridden British consul in Zanzibar find themselves crossing Africa staring the most beautiful and dangerous travails head on. The screenplay is based in fact,…
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