White Witch Doctor (1953)
1h 36m
Running Time
July 1, 1953Release Date
White Witch Doctor (1953)
1h 36m
Running Time
July 1, 1953Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
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?
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Cast & Crew.
Susan Hayward
Ellen Burton
Robert Mitchum
John 'Lonni' Douglas
Timothy Carey
Jarrett
Walter Slezak
Huysman
Mashood Ajala
Jacques
Joseph C. Narcisse
Utembo
Henry Hathaway
Director
Elzie Emanuel
Kapuka
Ivan Goff
Writer
Otis Greene
Bakuba boy
Ben Roberts
Writer
Louise A. Stinetorf
Writer
Everett Brown
Bakuba King (uncredited)
Michael Ansara
De Gama (uncredited)
Otto Lang
Producer
Bernard Herrmann
Composer
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction
Mark-Lee Kirk
Art Direction
Gerd Oswald
First Assistant Director
Stuart A. Reiss
Set Decoration
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Ben Nye
Makeup Artist
Harry M. Leonard
Sound
Dorothy Jeakins
Costume Design
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
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). The music score (notable for its use of the serpent, an obsolete instrument) was by Bernard Herrmann, and the cinematography by Leon Shamroy.
The film was set in the Belgian Congo in 1907.
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