Stanley and Livingstone

1939

Stanley and Livingstone

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In this historical drama, Spencer Tracy plays 19th-century American journalist Henry M. Stanley, an adventure-prone sort who is assigned by his editor to locate lost Scottish missionary David Livingstone in darkest Africa. Though seriously ill, Livingstone is content ministering to the natives, declining Stanley's invitation to return home.

Cast

Spencer Tracy
as Henry M. Stanley
Cedric Hardwicke
as Dr. David Livingstone
Walter Brennan
as Jeff Slocum
Nancy Kelly
as Eve Kingsley
Richard Greene
as Gareth Tyce
Charles Coburn
as Lord Tyce
Henry Hull
as James Gordon Bennett
Henry Travers
as John Kingsley
Miles Mander
as Sir John Gresham
David Torrence
as Mr. Cranston
Holmes Herbert
as Frederick Holcomb
C. Montague Shaw
as Sir Oliver French
Paul Stanton
as Capt. Webb
Brandon Hurst
as Sir Henry Forrester
Hassan Said
as Hassan
Paul Harvey
as Col. Grimes
Russell Hicks
as Commissioner
Frank Dae
as Commissioner
Clarence Derwent
as Sir Francis Vane
Joseph Crehan
as Morehead
Robert Middlemass
as Carmichael
Frank Jaquet
as Senator
William Williams
as Mace
Ernest Baskett
as Zucco
Emmett Vogan
as Bennett's Secretary
James M. McNamara
as Committeeman
William Dunn
as Chuma
Jack Clisby
as Mombay
Richard Stanley
as Lieutenant
Emmett E. Smith
as Susi
Tom Coleman
as Corporal
Dick Stanley
as Lieutenant
William E. 'Red' Blair
as Sergeant
Frank Orth
as Man with Pills
Billy Watson
as Copy Boy
Harry Harvey
as Man
Vernon Dent
as Newspaperman
Everett Brown
as Bongo
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  • Feb 04, 2020
    From one of the best years for movies ever comes this dull and slight biography about the journey to find a "lost" white missionary working in the then uncharted regions of darkest Africa in the 1870s, and then to get the work substantiated. Spencer Tracy helms the piece stoically although the plotting is spotty, and the rationale inconsistent. Charles Coburn and Cedric Hardwick do well as motivating factors. Meh.
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