![]() The plot such as it is has Hope as a Robert Ruark type author who has used his uncle's African diary as material for some successful books. Call Me Bwana other than establishing background shots got no closer to Africa than London where the film was made. What was good for the Road to Zanizibar wasn't going to cut it any more with a Sixties audience. Not after King Solomon's Mines and The African Queen right up to Howard Hawks's acclaimed Hatari. Someone forgot to tell old ski nose that non-authentic African locations just weren't going to cut it any more. Nowhere near so bad is it's made out to be without challenging "Some like it hot" in the 60's comedy stakes. I saw this at the "Odeon" Kemp Town before it became a more niche venue. The Africans pretty much outsmart everybody which was novel for its time. Miss Eckberg doesn't have much trouble stealing the film,Mr Hope looks a little bit tired of it all. It has a lot of 1963 mildly political jokes (remember "The First Family" record Album?) that may mistify anyone coming across it today. That will either encourage you or turn you off. Like most of Mr Hope's films,"Call me Bwana" is merely a vehicle for his gagging routines. The Russians are also looking for it,this time a foretaste of a R.Hudson film 20 - odd years later. ![]() He pretends what we Brits back in the day called "An old Africa hand" on the strength of a memoir written by his uncle,and is tasked to recover a NASA satellite that has gone off piste and landed in the African jungle. Mr Hope,taking a page from R.Hudson's superior "Man's Favourite sport", is an "expert" waiting to be found out. She certainly seems to be enjoying herself to be fair. Not as bad as some others have 's a lightweight Bob Hope comedy, after all. lots of spies, intrigue, and exotic "foreign" locations, just like a James Bond flick. I can see why Broccoli wanted to do this project. NO SONGS! and a five minute bit with a 30-something Arnold Palmer. This film is very similar to Hope's "Road" movies with Bing, but moves slower. Viewers will recognize Jeffries, who played the grandfather in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Co-stars Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, and Lionel Jeffries round out the cast. must be the first to find it, so they hire African expert Matthew Merriwether (Bob Hope). The basic premise is that one of our space ships has gone astray, and landed in Africa. The credits don't list who does the voices for John Kennedy or Kruschev at the opening, but clearly its a reflection of the politics of the day. Acc to IMDb, this was the second film produced by Eon productions. He used the billboard of the poster as a self-tribute for all his non-Bond movies, knowing he will never have the opportunity again to do a non-Bond movie.Lots of one-liners by Bob Hope, in this film produced by Albert Broccoli, who did all the early James Bond movies. #Call me bwana movie"Call me Bwana" is a goody spy-like movie set in Africa, Bob Hope has a hge spider on his arm just like in another James Bond. it is say that Sean Connery was supposed to take over the Tarzan role as Gordon Scott was done with it but he refused the role of Tarzan, preferring the role of an unknown spy-like offered to him by Albert R. The two sets ("Tarzan" and "The Killer of the Kilimanjaro") must have met in hotels/bars in Kenya/Tanzania in 1959. this Tarzan filmed in Kenya/Tanzania features an unknown young actor called Sean Connery (it is his first second role actually). ![]() The Killer of the Kilimanjaro was done in 1959, the same year than "Tarzan the Greatest Adventure" with the American actor Gordon Scott. ![]() ![]() Broccoli did three movies in Kenya (Safari, Odongo, The Killer of the Kilimanjaro). Many movies were done under Warwick Films in British colonies (Kenya, India, etc.). Broccoli in 1951 to enjoy invcentives given by the British Empire for movies filmes in British colonies. Just wanna add the following - Before EON, BRoccoli founded Warwick Films, a British company founded by Irving Allen and Albert R. "Call Me Bwana" is indeed not well known. ![]()
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