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  1. 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
  2. Call Me Bwana. 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.

  3. A tired script and stale jokes, a wasted Lionel Jeffries, who had a great comedic timing, is thrown away in a completely forgettable role. While Anita Ekberg and Edie Adams are little more than eye candy, Hope should have concentrated on his TV performances, and left "Call Me Bwana" to the Smothers Brothers or the 3 Stooges.

  4. The producers of Call Me Bwana, Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, are the same team behind the first seven hugely popular James Bond films, beginning with Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963). Their Bond influence comes through in Call Me Bwana's tongue-in-cheek presentation of gadgets, spies, and gorgeous girls.

    • Gordon Douglas
    • Bob Hope
  5. 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. However, a foreign power sends Secret Agent Luba to try and acquire the capsule for itself and, when Matthew and Luba reach their destination, they find that the tribe ...

  6. Call Me Bwana. Call Me Bwana is a 1963 British comedy film directed by Gordon Douglas, starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg. A secret moon capsule containing vital government secrets goes off course and lands in the African jungle, in the territory of the hostile Ekele tribe. The U.S. government recruits Matt Merriwether (Hope), an experienced ...

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