Not only were contemporary films like Hatari shot on location, but African independence and civil wars greatly increased Americans' awareness and knowledge of the continent.If, Bwana: E (and sometimes why) If Bwana (Photo credit: kubia) It may have been harmed by not being filmed on location in Africa (despite the producers' original plans to shoot in Kenya) at a time when audiences' tastes had become more sophisticated than in the 1940s when a faux jungle on a lot in Los Angeles was the norm. The film was not a great commercial success and is often cited to mark the beginning of Bob Hope's career decline. Bob Hope sang the title song over the end credits. Barry released a recording of The Big Safari as well as another United Artists comedy The Mouse on the Moon under a psudonym of "The Countdowns".
John Barry claimed that Norman contacted him to orchestrate his theme The Big Safari for the film but the film's orchestration was eventually credited to Muir Mathieson. Paul Jarrico made revisions to the script Īrt director Syd Cain recalled that originally wild African animals from British zoos were to be released onto the golf course sequence during the filming but the idea was shelved when they caused expensive damage. Adams' original role was given to Anita Ekberg but as Hope had promised her a role the film was rewritten for a new female character. One day on the set she met a stuntwoman dressed like her character throwing a male stuntman in a jiu jitsu throw Adams realised that now her character was a secret agent. She remembered that the film seemed to be written as it went along initially her character was a nuclear scientist, then a big game hunter. Įdie Adams thought that she was actually going to Africa and had her 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. Broccoli asked Zec if he had any ideas and 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 United Artists executive Donald Zec if they had any ideas for their non-Bond film, Harry Saltzman who had previously made The Iron Petticoat with Hope said he had an idea for a Bob Hope movie. Many original suggestions were meant to showcase Sean Connery who turned them all down as he didn't 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. A scene involving an unseen President John F. 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. 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. Hope 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. Bob Hope plays a New York writer who has passed off his uncle's memoirs of explorations in Africa as his own.
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