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
Walter Slezak
Huysman
Timothy Carey
Jarrett
Mashood Ajala
Jacques
Joseph C. Narcisse
Utembo
Elzie Emanuel
Kapuka
Otis Greene
Bakuba boy
Everett Brown
Bakuba King (uncredited)
Michael Ansara
De Gama (uncredited)
Henry Hathaway
Director
Ben Roberts
Screenplay
Stuart A. Reiss
Set Decoration
Joseph MacDonald
Additional Director of Photography
Otto Lang
Producer
Harry Jackson
Second Unit Director of Photography
Dorothy Jeakins
Costume Design
Erich von Stroheim Jr.
Assistant Director
Eugene Grossman
Sound
Leon Shamroy
Director of Photography
Ben Nye
Makeup Artist
Arthur Lueker
First Assistant Director
Ivan Goff
Screenplay
Harry M. Leonard
Sound
Ray Kellogg
Visual Effects
Lyle R. Wheeler
Art Direction
Richard Rosson
Second Unit Director
James B. Clark
Editor
Gerd Oswald
First Assistant Director
Charles G. Clarke
Second Unit Director of Photography
Mark-Lee Kirk
Art Direction
Eva Monley
Script Supervisor
Louise A. Stinetorf
Novel
Bernard Herrmann
Original Music Composer
Media.
Details.
Release DateJuly 1, 1953
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
africa
early 1900s
big game hunter
zaire
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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