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Ajfe "witch doctor' Susan Hayward maintains a vigil at the side of a native boy mauled by a lion he sought to kill to qualify for manhood, knowing that if the boy dies, she and the man she loves, Robert Mitchum, will be put to death by the natives.
WHITE WITCH DOCTOR
Producer Otto Lang and a camera crew spent three months in the Belgian Congo Basin to get the backgrounds for "White Witch Doctor." Unlike the hardy Hepburn and Bogart, however, who sweated, swatted and swore a blue streak in filming "The African Queen ' on location, "White Witch Doctor's" stars Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum were fortunate enough to operate in comparative comfort against these impressive backgrounds. The native cast ranges from the giant Bakuba tribe, the Mangebetus (described as longheads because they bind their heads to get the elongated effect) and the Pygmies.
Under Henry Hathawav's direction, the story follows the adventures of a safari into the heart of Africa that is taking a nurse on a conscience mission to the site
of her late husband, a doctor, had planned to practice. Accompanying her are Robert Mitchum and Walter Slezak, hunters seeking bigger game than wild animals — a secret hoard of gold in the Bakuba country. The nurse's troubles begin multiplying when she works her first cure, incurs the jealousy of the local witch doctors, and just misses being bitten by a tarant ula, dropped into her tent by a vindictive native medico. The romance that develops between her and Mitchum effects a change in the latter, turns him against the gold-hungry Slezak, forces him to kill his greedy partner. Her ministrations to the tribal chief's son, after the witch doctors have engendered gangrene in the wounds incurred during the boy's battle with a lion, leads to a happy ending as both remain in Africa to serve the natives.
FILM BULLETIN July 27, 1953 Paq« 21