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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.
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. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - an utter fraud and authority only on feminine pulchritude - to go find it.
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- Comedy
- Gordon Douglas
- 1963-06-14
Call Me Bwana. 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 ...
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- Bill Dunn
- Comedy
- Gordon Douglas
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Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Photos & Videos. Film Details. Articles & Reviews. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A wisecracking fraud fights off enemy agents to retrieve a space capsule that crashed in Africa. Cast & Crew. Read More. Gordon Douglas. Director. Bob Hope. Matt Merriwether. Anita Ekberg. Luba. Edie Adams. Frederica Larsen.
- Gordon Douglas
- Bob Hope
IMDbPro. All topics. Trivia. Call Me Bwana. A poster for this film is featured in From Russia with Love (1963). It shows an Anita Ekberg head shot on the side of a building when 007 and Ali Kerim Bey are about to assassinate Krilencu. A window opens (appearing to be Ekberg's mouth) and Krilencu exits the building on a rope and is shot.
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.
When an American space capsule crashes in an uncharted region of Africa, Merriwether, based on his alleged expert knowledge of the region, is selected to recover the capsule. Joining Merriwether and his pre-Kervorkian suicide kit, is security agent Frederica Larsen (Edie Adams).
