Underplayed Gems

Call Me Bwana (1963)

Call Me Bwana poster
Directed by
Gordon Douglas
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 33m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A bumbling American accidentally gets mixed up in an African jungle adventure. The movie follows his comedic mishaps with a beautiful woman.

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What happens

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. No. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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