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Stanley and Livingstone

6.419391h 41mNRMovieAdventureHistory

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…

DirectorsHenry King·Otto Brower
WritersPhilip Dunne·Julien Josephson
ProducerDarryl F. Zanuck

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Cast · Directed by Henry King

STSpencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy
Henry M. Stanley
NKNancy Kelly
Nancy Kelly
Eve Kingsley
RGRichard Greene
Richard Greene
Gareth Tyce
WBWalter Brennan
Walter Brennan
Jeff Slocum
CCCharles Coburn
Charles Coburn
Lord Tyce
CHCedric Hardwicke
Cedric Hardwicke
Dr. David Livingstone
HHHenry Hull
Henry Hull
James Gordon Bennett, Jr.
HTHenry Travers
Henry Travers
John Kingsley
MMMiles Mander
Miles Mander
Sir John Gresham
DTDavid Torrence
David Torrence
Mr. Cranston
HHHolmes Herbert
Holmes Herbert
Frederick Holcomb
CSC. Montague Shaw
C. Montague Shaw
Sir Oliver French

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Stanley and Livingstone hasn't started streaming in United Kingdom yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around October 6, 1939. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.

Is Stanley and Livingstone based on a true story?

Yes — Stanley and Livingstone is based on true events, dramatising real people and events (some details may be fictionalised for the screen).