Savage Splendor

Africa's wildest secrets in blazing color!

Duration: 60 min
Release date: 1949-11-02
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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.

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Savage Splendor

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