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White Witch Doctor

6.3 96 mins Adventure   Horror   1953
20th Century Fox  
Director(s): Henry Hathaway

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?

Casts of White Witch Doctor

Susan Hayward

as Ellen Burton

Robert Mitchum

as John 'Lonni' Douglas

Walter Slezak

as Huysman

Timothy Carey

as Jarrett

Mashood Ajala

as Jacques

Joseph C. Narcisse

as Utembo

Elzie Emanuel

as Kapuka

Otis Greene

as Bakuba boy

Everett Brown

as Bakuba King (uncredited)

Michael Ansara

as De Gama (uncredited)

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