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White Witch Doctor (1953)
Directed by Henry Hathaway
“The story of a woman who followed a dream to the end of the earth ... and found a love that will live to the end of time !”
Adventure, Horror · 1h 36m
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 witch doctors to reach their destination and on the way, they fall in love. Will their contrasting interests doom their romance?
Cast
Susan Hayward
Robert Mitchum
Walter Slezak
Mashood Ajala
Joseph C. Narcisse
Elzie Emanuel
Timothy Carey
Otis Greene
Everett Brown
Michael Ansara
Crew
- Director
- Henry Hathaway
- Screenplay
- Ben Roberts, Ivan Goff
- Novel
- Louise A. Stinetorf
- Director of Photography
- Leon Shamroy
- Original Music Composer
- Bernard Herrmann
- Editor
- James B. Clark
- Producer
- Otto Lang
Details
- Release date
- 1953-07-01
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- Adventure, Horror
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox