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.

Spencer Tracy
Henry M. Stanley

Nancy Kelly
Eve Kingsley

Richard Greene
Gareth Tyce

Walter Brennan
Jeff Slocum

Charles Coburn
Lord Tyce

Cedric Hardwicke
Dr. David Livingstone

Henry Hull
James Gordon Bennett, Jr.

Henry Travers
John Kingsley
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August 18, 1939
Runtime
1h 41m
Rating
NR
Genres
Adventure, History
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