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Stanley and Livingstone (1939)

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.
When Livingstone later dies, Stanley returns to continue the good doctor's
work (which, of course, never really happened).

Directed by Henry King Otto Brower   (safari episodes)

Writing credits: Hal Long   (historical research and story outline) and,
Sam Hellman   (historical research and story outline), Philip Dunne (screenplay),
and  Julien Josephson   (screenplay), Edwin Blum   (treatment contributor),
and  WilliamA. Drake   (treatment contributor), Ernest Pascal   (treatment
contributor)

Cast:

Spencer Tracy ....  Henry M. Stanley
Nancy Kelly ....  Eve Kingsley
Richard Greene ....  Gareth Tyce
Walter Brennan ....  Jeff Slocum
Charles Coburn ....  Lord Tyce, Publisher London Globe
Cedric Hardwicke ....  Dr. David Livingstone (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
Henry Hull ....  James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
Henry Travers ....  John Kingsley
Miles Mander ....  Sir John Gresham
David Torrence ....  Mr. Cranston
Holmes Herbert ....  Sir Frederick Holcomb
C. Montague Shaw ....  Sir Oliver French (as Montague Shaw)
Brandon Hurst ....  Sir Henry Forrester Hassan Said ....  Hassan, Stanley's Native
Guide Paul Harvey ....  Col. Grimes
Russell Hicks ....  Peace Commissioner
Frank Dae ....  Peace Commissioner
Paul Stanton ....  David Webb (scenes deleted)
Blue Washington ....  Mombay (scenes deleted)
Ernest Baskett ....  Zuco, Committeeman
William E. 'Red' Blair ....  Sergeant
Everett Brown ....  Bongo
Bobby Burns ....  Geographical Society Delegate
Jack Clisby ....  Mombay
Tom Coleman ....  Corporal
Joseph Crehan ....  Morehead
Vernon Dent ....  Newspaperman in Office
Clarence Derwent ....  Sir Francis Vane
William R. Dunn ....  Chuma, Livingstone's Servant
Harry Harvey ....  Newspaperman at Water Barrel
Frank Jaquet ....  Senator
Darby Jones ....  Chewing Native
Eric Lonsdale ....  Reporter at Dock
Anthony Marsh ....  Messenger
James McNamara ....  Committeeman
Robert Middlemass ....  Carmichael
Clive Morgan ....  Reporter at Dock
Frank Orth ....  Newspaperman with Pills
Imboden Parrish ....  Reporter at Dock
Speirs Ruskell ....  Messenger
Emmett Smith ....  Susi, Livingstone's Servant
Dick Stanley ....  Lieutenant
Harry Strang ....  Captain
F. Philip Sylvestre ....  Messenger
Emmett Vogan ....  Albert
Billy Watson ....  Billy
William B. Williams ....  Mace

Produced by Kenneth Macgowan
Darryl F. Zanuck ....  producer
Ben Silvey ....  assistant producer
Original Music by R.H. Bassett
Robert Russell Bennett
David Buttolph   (song "The Departure"),Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman,
Edward B. Powell, David Raksin, Rudy Schrager, Louis Silvers
Non-Original Music by Stephen Foster   (song "Oh Susanna"), Arthur Sullivan
(from "St. Gertrude")
Cinematography by George Barnes
Film Editing by Barbara McLean
Casting by Walter Whaley
Art Direction by William S. Darling
George Dudley     
Set Decoration by Thomas Little
Costume Design by Royer
Makeup Department Karl Herlinger ....  makeup artist
Newton House ....  makeup artist
Buddy King ....  hair stylist
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director Jack McEdwards ....  assistant director
Robert D. Webb ....  assistant directorHenry Weinberger ....  assistant director
Art Department Joe Behm ....  props
William Sittel ....  assistant props
Jack Stubbs ....  assistant props
Sound Department Alfred Bruzlin ....  sound
Roger Heman Sr. ....  sound
M. Braggins ....  cable person
Harold Hobson ....  assistant sound
Harry Roberts ....  boom operator
Special Effects by Sol Halperin ....  process photography
Louis J. Witte ....  special effects
Other crew:
Osa Johnson ....  technical director (safari episodes)
A.J. Klein ....  chief white hunter (safari episodes)
Louis Silvers ....  musical director  Sidney Wagner ....  photographer (safari episodes)
Sabine Baring-Gould ....  hymnist: "Onward Christian Soldiers"
Sam Benson ....  wardrobe superviso
Lionel Bevans ....  dialogue director
Richard Billings ....  assistant cutter
Edwin Blum ....  continuity
Teresa Brachetto ....  script clerk
Robert Fritch ....  assistant cutter
Ollie Hughes ....  wardrobe
L.V. Johnson ....  gaffer
Max Larey ....  script clerk
Bob Lee ....  wardrobe
Owen McLean ....  casting assistant
Paul McVey ....  music advisor
Ferdinand Meine ....  best boy
Harold Lloyd Morris ....  technical director
Rose Moser ....  secretary
Ernest Pascal ....  continuity
C.E. Richardson ....  grip
Irving Rosenberg ....  camera operator
Jack Warren ....  assistant camera

Runtime: 101 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification: Finland:S / USA:Approved (PCA #5040)

Trivia: Neither Spencer Tracy nor Walter Brennan ever actually went to
Africa during the making of this film. Stand-ins for both of them were
used in the long shots during the safari sequences, and whenever
Tracy or Brennan were shown "on safari" in close-up against African
scenery, they were acting in front of a rear projection screen.
Otto Brower and Osa Johnson followed Stanley's path through Kenya,
Tanganyika and Uganda with their crew and returned with 100,000 feet
of film for use in the safari sequences.The movie was dubbed into Spanish,
Portuguese and Dutch.

Goofs: Factual errors: At the National Geographic Society Stanley
states he is English because he was born in St. Asaph. This is actually
in Wales.

Quotes: Henry M. Stanley: Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Dr. David Livingstone: Yes! Henry M. Stanley: Thank God, Doctor,
I have been permitted to see you.

Tagline: THE MOST HEROIC EXPLOIT THE WORLD HAS KNOWN!
Into the perilous wilderness of unknown Africa...one white man ventured
to seek another! Heat...fever...cannibals...jungle...nothing could stop him!

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