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White Witch Doctor is a 1953 Technicolor adventure film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, and Walter Slezak. Made by 20th Century Fox , it was produced by Otto Lang from a screenplay by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts , based on the 1950 novel by Louise Allender Stinetorf (1900–1992).
- July 1, 1953 (U.S.)
- Otto Lang
White Witch Doctor: Directed by Henry Hathaway. With Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Walter Slezak, Mashood Ajala. In 1907, a nurse arrives in the Belgian Congo to work for a missionary doctor but meets a grumpy animal hunter who secretly plans to search for gold in the dangerous Bakuba tribal region.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Henry Hathaway
- 1953-10-09
Brief Synopsis. Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take her upriver, despite his misgivings about her suitability for Africa. They battle escaped gorillas, hostile natives, infected lion wounds, and hostile ...
- Henry Hathaway
- Susan Hayward
Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take her upriver, despite his misgivings about her suitability for Africa. They battle escaped gorillas, hostile natives, infected lion wounds, and hostile witch doctors to reach their destination and on the way, they fall in love. Will their contrasting interests doom their ...
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White Witch Doctor. Two gold hunters (Robert Mitchum, Walter Slezak) guide a widowed nurse (Susan Hayward) on her jungle mission in the early 1900s Belgian Congo.
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Jan 8, 2022 · 'White Witch Doctor' is a 1953 adventure film directed by Henry Hathaway starring Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum. Set in the last months of Congo Free State in 1907. Films like this give a unique historical inside in how Africa was precieved at the time in the West.