![]() Įdie Adams thought that she was actually going to Africa and had painful inoculations. The film was originally intended to be shot entirely on location in Kenya but the problems of the Mau Mau Uprising led the producers to only have second unit cinematography led by John Coquillon. United Artists made The Beatles film with Walter Shenson and A Hard Day's Night was more successful than Call Me Bwana. Saltzman laughed and asked why he would want to make a film about four young long-haired kids from Liverpool when he had Bob Hope. Zec replied that he had seen a British rock and roll group called The Beatles that had sellout crowds and thought about featuring them in a film. When asked by journalist and close Broccoli affiliate Donald Zec if they had any ideas for their non- Bond film, Harry Saltzman, who had previously made The Iron Petticoat with Hope, suggested a Bob Hope movie. Many original suggestions were meant to showcase Sean Connery, who turned them all down, as he did not want his career totally in the hands of Eon. Broccoli's autobiography When the Snow Melts, Eon Productions was originally contracted by United Artists to make two films a year for them: one James Bond film and one non- Bond film. Kennedy in his famous rocking chair is parodied with his Russian counterpart Nikita Khrushchev rocking in a chair that squeaks loudly.Īccording to Albert R. A scene involving an unseen President John F. Golfer Arnold Palmer also makes a brief cameo, playing a crazy round of golf with Hope-a scene revisited in the film Spies Like Us where Hope makes a cameo appearance and plays golf through a tent. Hope's co-stars include Edie Adams and Anita Ekberg playing secret agents. Based on his false reputation as an "Africa Expert", he is recruited by the United States Government and NASA to locate a missing secret space probe before it can be located by hostile forces. Merriwether lives his false reputation as a great white hunter to the point of living in a Manhattan apartment furnished to look like an African safari lodge complete with sound effects records of African fauna. ![]() ![]() No.īob Hope plays Matt Merriwether, a New York writer who has passed off his uncle's memoirs of explorations in Africa as his own. It was made by most of the same crew as Dr. Largely set in Africa, it was the only film made by Eon Productions not about the fictional MI6 agent James Bond until the 2014 film The Silent Storm. Call Me Bwana is a 1963 British Technicolor farce film starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg and directed by Gordon Douglas. ![]()
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