The Bushbaby
The Bushbaby is a 1969 film based on the novel The Bushbabies 1965 by William Stevenson and adapted by Robert Maxwell. It was directed and produced by John Trent and stars Margaret Brooks and Lou Gossett in the title roles, also starring Donald Houston and Laurence Naismith.
One night in the Kenyan grasslands, Jackie Leeds and her familys native friend and servant, Tembo Murumbi, chase a young galago about its preferred habitat, a baobab tree. Tembo catches the small animal and offers it to Jackie as a gift she names the small bushbaby Komba. A year or so passes since this first encounter, and one day at church, Kombas playfulness causes commotion, disrupting the daily hymn. Feeling defeated, the pastor yields the podium to Professor Crankshaw, who takes the opportunity to bid farewell to a number of church members. Jackie notices that Crankshaw, Cranky as she calls him, looks firmly into her fathers eyes as he speaks, and she becomes alarmed. After church, Jackies suspicions are confirmed when her father explains that, due to the new powers in Kenyas government, his employment as a game warden is likely to be terminated. Theyll leave for London where hell fill an opening at the zoo. Jackie is upset at the news, specially when she learns that Komba will have to be left behind. For Jackie, leaving Africa means leaving the home shes known all of her life her school, her friends, and the grave of her mother, Penelope Leeds, who had been killed in the uprising of 1961.The Bushbaby was not released on home video untilAugust 1993. It has not been released in either DVD or Bluray format, becoming part of MGMs moratorium of unreleased films. ........
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