Stanley and Livingstone

Stanley and Livingstone 1939 is a movie based loosely upon the true story of reporter Sir Henry M. Stanleys quest to find Dr. David Livingstone, a missionary presumed lost in Africa. Spencer Tracy plays Stanley, while Cedric Hardwicke portrays Livingstone. Other cast members include Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn and Henry Hull.

When Stanley returns to New York City, his employer, New York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett, Jr., gives him another nearimpossible assignment. The London Globe has announced that an expedition headed by Gareth Tyce Richard Greene, the son of the Globe s publisher, Lord Tyce Charles Coburn, has verified that worldrenowned missionary David Livingstone is dead. Bennett does not believe it, and would relish embarrassing his rival by proving the story wrong. It is a daunting task, searching the mostly unmapped interior of the dark continent for one man, but Stanley accepts the challenge.On the boat trip to Zanzibar, Stanley makes a very unfavorable impression on fellow passenger Lord Tyce. Stanley meets Eve Kingsley Nancy Kelly and her father, John Kingsley Henry Travers, the temporary head of the British authorities in Zanzibar. Eve has been seeing Gareth Tyce, recovering from his ordeal, in the hope of getting him to persuade his father to use his influence to have her father reassigned to a more healthy posting back in England. Eve warns Stanley about the dangers of Africa, but he is undeterred. ........

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