Release Date: Aug 4, 1939 Wide
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley and Livingstone. Tracy plays 19th-century American journalist Henry M. Stanley, an adventure-prone sort who is assigned by his editor (Henry Hull) to locate lost Scottish missionary David Livingstone (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) in darkest Africa. There are perils aplenty before the inevitable meeting in the clearing, capped by the immortal courtesy "Dr. Livingstone, I
Aug 4, 1939 Wide
Aug 2, 1990
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It's dramatically sound, but factually unsound.
It is extremely heavy on the "whiteman's burden" type of ignorant racism, though that was just a general feeling of the era. Otherwise, it did get its message across in a 30s type of way.
August 31, 2009
ANY MOVIE WITH SPENCER TRACY IS GOOD, THIS IS AN EXCELLENT CLASSIC, ALWAYS INTERESTING. VERY WELL ACTED.
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