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Call Me Bwana is a 1963 British Technicolor farce film starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg and directed by Gordon Douglas. Largely set in Africa, it was the only film made by Eon Productions not about the fictional MI6 agent James Bond until the 2014 film The Silent Storm. It was made by most of the same crew as Dr. No.
Call Me Bwana: Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries. A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it.
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- Comedy
- Gordon Douglas
- 1963-06-14
Call Me Bwana (1963) is one of Bob Hope's solo efforts from his later career and a pleasant diversion for his fans. In it, the United States government sends famed anthropologist and expert on Africa, Matthew Merriweather (Hope), deep into the African jungle to retrieve a valuable moon probe that has gone off course and crashed.
- Gordon Douglas
- Bob Hope
Here is an unusual record that Bob Hope (1903-2003) recorded on the United Artists label. He recorded it on April 4, 1963 for the movie of the same name.
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- A Trip Down Memory Lane
A moon capsule containing important information accidentally lands in the possession of a remote African tribe, and the American government sends Matt Merriwether (Bob Hope), an expert on Africa ...
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- Bill Dunn
- Comedy
- Gordon Douglas
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A returning moon capsule goes off course and lands in Africa where a little-known tribe finds it. Washington sends Matthew Merriwether to recover it—thinking he's an expert on the region—when in fact he's no such thing.
