Search - Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone on DVD

MPAA Rating: R Movie Release: 1997 DVD Release: 07/05/2005 Format: DVD SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 31 mins Studio: Platinum Disc Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Adventure, Docudrama, War Drama, Historical Epic

At the time this made-for-TV historical drama first aired on ABC, critics praised the fact that it was more accurate than the 1939 Spencer Tracy vehicle Stanley and Livingstone; while this is generally true (unlike the earlier film, this one was lensed on location in England and Kenya), the pop-psychology sensibilities depicted in the TV movie smack more of the late 20th than the late 19th century. In 1871, young American reporter Henry Morton Stanley (Aidan Quinn) sets out to prove that Scottish-born missionary David Livingstone (Nigel Hawthorne), who years earlier had disappeared somewhere in Central Africa, was still alive, and not "cooked in a stew" as was generally believed. The film is divided into three parts: the search for Livingstone, Stanley's spiritual odyssey after finding his quarry, and Stanley's seemingly futile efforts to prove that he actually found Livingstone to the skeptical and downright hostile members of the Royal Geographic Society in London. Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone debuted December 7, 1997. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Aidan Quinn - Henry Morton Stanley
Nigel Hawthorne - David Livingstone
Kamir Bedi - Khamis Bin Abdullah
Edward Fox - Markham
Dylan Baker - Gordon Bennett