“STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21558, 22 January 1940, Page 5

“STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE”

“Dr Livingstone, I presume?" Drama knows no more thrilling moment than when Stanley speaks these words to Dr Livingstone in the heart of Africa, the climax of an adventure that thrilled the world. And now the heroic exploit will shortly be seen in one of the most spectacular motion pictures, Darryl F. Zanuck’s production of “Stanley and Livingstone." Spencer Tracy, twice winner of the Academy Award, portrays the daring Stanley, a newspaper reporter on the "New York Herald." Starred with him are Nancy Kelly and Richard Greene, heading an imposing cast Including Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Livingstone, Henry Hull, and Henry Travers. Into the perilous wilderness of unknown Africa, one white man ventured to seek another, an impossible labour marked by Innumerable nameless terrors—but nothing could stop him Such is the theme of the screen play by Philip Dunne and Julien Josephson. Under the direction of Henry King, the film assumes a high position among the year’s most notable screen achievements.