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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. 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.
- 4 April 1963 (UK)
- Albert R. Broccoli
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 ...
- (60)
- Bob Hope
- Gordon Douglas
- Danjaq Productions
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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. Many of the same ...
- Gordon Douglas
- Bob Hope
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 ...
The whole movie is padded. Things happen, Hope makes a wisecrack, the scene changes, and everything we saw up to then is forgotten. At least a film set in Africa should be beautiful, but this is shot in such a cheap, offhanded manner it's almost distracting; its clear where the movie ends and the stock footage begins.
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 ...
