When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.

Spencer Tracy
as Henry M. Stanley

Nancy Kelly
as Eve Kingsley

Richard Greene
as Gareth Tyce

Walter Brennan
as Jeff Slocum

Charles Coburn
as Lord Tyce

Cedric Hardwicke
as Dr. David Livingstone

Henry Hull
as James Gordon Bennett, Jr.

Henry Travers
as John Kingsley

Miles Mander
as Sir John Gresham

David Torrence
as Mr. Cranston
CinemaSerf
Spencer Tracy is on top form in this story of the British-born American journalist Henry Stanley who is despatched by his editor into the uncharted reaches of the African interior to track down the famed explorer David Livingstone, rumours of whose death having been reported by reputable British new...