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Savage Splendor (1949)

Savage Splendor (1949)

Documentary

Africa's wildest secrets in blazing color!

Release Date: 1949, November 2
Directors: Lewis Cotlow, Armand Denis
Countries: United States of America
Production: RKO Radio Pictures
Cast: Carr Hartley, King Mbofe Mabinshe

Overview:

The film tells of the Armand Denis/Lewis Cotlow expedition that had the two men cover 22,000 miles through Tanganyika, Belgian Congo, and British East Africa. The high points of their ten-month trip are an impressive elephant hunt by the Pygmies of Belgian Congo, the crowning of King Mbofe Mabiashe and the capture of a rhino.