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Bwana Devil (1952) was a Adventure - Action Film directed by Arch Oboler and produced by Arch Oboler and Sidney W. Pink.

SYNOPSIS

Stack plays a lion hunter in this jungle adventure. He's brought to Africa to kill off a pair of vicious man-eaters who keep eating workers during the construction of an important continental rail line. At first, he thinks it will be a walk in the park, but the lions soon change his mind. Filmed in an early 3D process.

(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).

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Bwana Devil Quotes:

Bob: Now I'm in a conspiracy against *him*.

Dr. McLean: There's a good guest... brings his own cook and his own bedroom!

Bob: Civilization, that's a noble word, but not enough to keep me rotting here.

Bob: I don't need any help, I'll get that scurvy lion myself.

Dr. McLean: As Gladstone said, "stat-us quo, stat-us quo."
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Bwana Devil Facts
Based on the 1898 Tsavo Lion attacks that were also told in The Ghost and the Darkness.

First movie released in the 3D film craze of the early 1950s.

Is the first American 3-D movie shot in color.

Arch Oboler traveled to Africa in 1948 to make audio recordings of native peoples. While in Africa, Oboler met William D. Snyder, a 16mm cameraman with his own industrial filmmaking company in Fargo, North Dakota. During their travels throughout Africa, Mr. Snyder shot the African footage that appears in Bwana Devil.

Bwana Devil was the first American feature film shown using Polaroid's dual-projector 3D system.

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