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Call Me Bwana (1963) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1963 · 102 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Gordon Douglas
- Starring
- Lionel Jeffries, Anita Ekberg, Percy Herbert, Edie Adams, Bob Hope, Paul Carpenter
Hope was never lovelier… Ekberg was never funnier! A returning moon capsule drifts off course and lands in a remote African tribe’s land. Washington dispatches Matthew Merriwether, mistakenly believing he’s an expert on the region, to retrieve it. Meanwhile a rival foreign power sends secret agent Luba to seize the capsule. When Matthew and Luba arrive, they discover the tribe regards the object as sacred and refuses to give it up.
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