Bwana Devil (1952)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Arch Oboler

Writer:

Arch Oboler (writer)

Release Date:

1953 (West Germany)

Genre:

Adventure

Tagline:

A lion in your lap! A lover in your arms!

Plot:

British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer...

Plot Keywords:

Lion | Jungle | Beautiful Woman | 3 Dimensional | Attack

Cast

Robert Stack	...	Bob Hayward
Barbara Britton	...	Alice Hayward
Nigel Bruce	...	Dr. Angus McLean
Ramsay Hill	...	Major Parkhurst
Paul McVey	...	Commissioner
Hope Miller	...	Portuguese girl
John Dodsworth	...	Sir William Drayton
Patrick O'Moore	...	Ballinger
Patrick Aherne	...	Latham
Edward C. Short		(as Edward Short)
Bhogwan Singh	...	Indian Headman
Paul Thompson
Bhupesh Guha	...	The Dancer
Bal Seirgakar	...	Indian Hunter
Kalu K. Sonkur	...	Karparim

Also Known As:

The Lions of Gulu (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

79 min | Germany:85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Anscocolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-12

Filming Locations:

Democratic Republic Of Congo

Company:

Gulu Productions

Trivia:

Bwana Devil was the first American feature film shown using Polaroid's dual-projector 3D system.

Quotes:

Dr. McLean: As Gladstone said, "stat-us quo, stat-us quo."

Movie Connections:

Referenced in C.O.D. (1981)

A lion in your lap, a lover in your arms!

Based on a true story. Bwana Devil, filmed in Natural Vision 3-D,came out at a time when movies were competing with the growing popularity of television, which was keeping audiences out of theaters in droves, Arch Obler's thiller has some spectacular photography of the African plains and is somewhat of a documentary. Lot's of shots of animal herds and native tribal dancing. The outdoor shots are brightly lit but the studio shots are quite dark. Third Dimension photography requires sets to be brightly lit. Starring Robert Stack, Barbara Britton and Nigel Bruce. This tale of a "Great White Hunter" hired, by the English rail-road company,to hunt down and kill two lions, that are killing off workers, is slow to start but the 3-D action picks up later with many shots of spears being thrown at the screen, on-coming trains heading stright for the camera and, of course, leaping lions jumping from the screen. This movie can still be screen on television, in 2-D of course, and is interesting to see the shots that had audiences jumping in their seats back in 1952.