Call Me Bwana
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| Call Me Bwana | |
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 Promotional movie poster for the film |
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| Directed by | Gordon Douglas |
| Produced by | Harry Saltzman Albert R. Broccoli |
| Written by | Johanna Harwood Nate Monaster |
| Starring | Bob Hope Anita Ekberg Edie Adams Arnold Palmer |
| Music by | Muir Mathieson |
| Cinematography | Ted Moore |
| Editing by | Peter R. Hunt |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
| Release date(s) |  June 14, 1963 |
| Running time | 102 min. |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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Call Me Bwana is a 1963 farce film starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg, and directed by Gordon Douglas. It is largely set in Africa.
It is the only film made by EON Productions which is not about the Ian Fleming spy character, James Bond.
Hope's co-stars include Edie Adams. Bob Hope plays a New York writer who has passed off his uncle's memoirs of explorations in Africa as his own and is then hired by NASA to locate a missing secret space probe before it can be located by hostile forces. Golfer Arnold Palmer 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.
Bwana is Swahili term of respect commonly used in East Africa.
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An advertisement for this film appears on an exterior wall in Istanbul in the film From Russia with Love. After helping shoot a man who just crawled out of a hole in the wall ad (concealed in Ekberg's face), Bond (Sean Connery) remarks "She should've kept her mouth shut."
When meeting Golfer Arnold Palmer, Palmer relates to the fact that his golf clubs were owned by a former friend of Bob's. Bob dumps the golf clubs on the ground and sees they're bent. He then says the line, "Yep...those are Crosby's alright."
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