Today’s movie is an adventure film with a scene that happens
on March 21. Watch this film tonight and enjoy.
FORBIDDEN TERRITORY
David
Livingston is been living in Africa for five years, when the village where he’s
staying is raided by slavers and many people are killed. Henry Stanley is
called away from the civil war in Spain by his newspaper, The New York
Herald Tribune to find Livingston. He goes to Zanzibar and on March 21,
1871 sets out for the interior with an expedition. [20:27 to 21:55] They have
many difficulties. They are attacked by crocodiles, Stanly gets deathly ill,
and an African tribal leader attacks them. His bearers insist on turning back,
but some travelers arrive, saying they have seen Livingstone. They push on and
reach the village of Ujiji, where Stanly greets Livingstone with the immortal
line, “Doctor Livingston, I presume”. To Stanley’s surprise Livingston doesn’t
want to return to England. He finally agrees if Stanley will help him
investigate whether Lake Tanganyika is the source of the Nile. They determine
it’s not and Stanley gets sick again. He tells Livingston his life story of
being illegitimate, going to America, fighting for the South at Shiloh and
later for the North. Livingston wants to keep looking for the Nile source, but
Stanley reminds him of his promise. They head for the coast, but halfway there,
Livingston turns back into Africa, sending his journal and letters on with
Stanley. When Stanley arrives in England his reception is not what he had
imagined. The Royal Geographical Society says the journal and letters are fakes
and that he never found Livingston. The girl he had been writing to has
abandoned him. In Africa Livingston dies and his relatives identify the writing
in the journal and letters as his, vindicating Stanley.
An interesting film. While it
works as an adventure story, it’s also the story of Henry Stanley and David
Livingston’s psychological development. The two tales are blended together seamlessly.
Into Africa by Martin Dugard (Doubleday, New York,
2003) at page 134 gives the date he left
Producer - Judd Parkin
Director - Simon Langston
Screenplay - John Pielmeier
Awards - Nominated for the
Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Movie (Dramatic Underscore)
Emmy.
Runtime - 1 hour 36 minutes
Released - December 7, 1997
Starring - Aidan Quinn as Henry
Stanley, Nigel Hawthorne as David Livingstone, Edward Fox as Markham, Dylan
Baker as Gordon Bennett, Fay Masterson as Alice Pike
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015
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