***SPOILERS*** The movie "White Witch Doctor" is more about greed and guilt and the strength in overcoming it then anything about modern or native medicine. Both big game hunter Lonni Douglas,Robert Mitchum, and nurse Ellen Burton, Susan Hayward, are in darkest Africa in the Belgian Congo for entirely different reasons then what they want you to believe in. Lonnie looking for gold in the dangerous Babuka country and Ellen in trying to make up for her husbands death that she feels responsible for. And in the end they both see the light in that doing the right thing, in unselfishly saving lives, is what it's really all about. That's after they almost end up losing their own!
It's really Lonnie's partner Dutch businessman Huysman, Walter Slezak, who plays on his greed in taking Lonni into traveling into Babuba country to find gold thats their by the nugget full. Lonnie together with With Ellan travel deep into the Congo to help white woman doctor Mary, played by an either a dummy or corpse, called "Big Moma" by the grateful natives who's battling a major epidemic that's threatening to wipe out the entire native Congo population.
What Lonni is really trying to do is use Ellen's work as cover to check out Babuba country to find where the gold is and get in touch with Huysman and his men to grab it, with deadly force if necessary, from the native tribesmen in the area! It's when Lonni sees what a great job Ellen is doing in saving the sick and dying natives that he turns away from his greed for gold and falls in love with Ellen that greatly outrages his partner Huysman. It's when Ellen is trying to save the Babuba King's, Everett Brown, young son Mekope, Oits Green, who was viciously mauled by a lion while, in order to prove that he's a man, trying to kill it single handedly that Huysman and his trope of gold diggers make their move.
***SPOILERS*** Taking Lonni, who tried to stop him, hostage Huysman threatened to murder him if he didn't tell him where the gold is buried: which in fact Lonni didn't know. It's then that Lonni's native guide Jacqus, Mashood Ajaia, set fire to Huysman's cache of both explosives and ammunition that had his gang of gold thieves running for their lives. It's also then that Lonni took on Huysman one on one with Huysman not Lonni being the one who first ran out of ammunition! Meanwhile back at the Babuba camp Ellen who was about to give up in saving Mekope's life, gangrene had already set in, saw that luck was on her side when the medication that she administrated to him miraculously borough the what looked like the dead man back to life!
P.S "White Witch Doctor"turned out to be the last movie that actor Everette Brown was to make. Brown who was in such 1930's classics as "I Am a Fugative From a Chain Gang" "King Kong" and "Gone with the wind " died almost four months before "White Witch Doctor" was released on October 25,1953.
It's really Lonnie's partner Dutch businessman Huysman, Walter Slezak, who plays on his greed in taking Lonni into traveling into Babuba country to find gold thats their by the nugget full. Lonnie together with With Ellan travel deep into the Congo to help white woman doctor Mary, played by an either a dummy or corpse, called "Big Moma" by the grateful natives who's battling a major epidemic that's threatening to wipe out the entire native Congo population.
What Lonni is really trying to do is use Ellen's work as cover to check out Babuba country to find where the gold is and get in touch with Huysman and his men to grab it, with deadly force if necessary, from the native tribesmen in the area! It's when Lonni sees what a great job Ellen is doing in saving the sick and dying natives that he turns away from his greed for gold and falls in love with Ellen that greatly outrages his partner Huysman. It's when Ellen is trying to save the Babuba King's, Everett Brown, young son Mekope, Oits Green, who was viciously mauled by a lion while, in order to prove that he's a man, trying to kill it single handedly that Huysman and his trope of gold diggers make their move.
***SPOILERS*** Taking Lonni, who tried to stop him, hostage Huysman threatened to murder him if he didn't tell him where the gold is buried: which in fact Lonni didn't know. It's then that Lonni's native guide Jacqus, Mashood Ajaia, set fire to Huysman's cache of both explosives and ammunition that had his gang of gold thieves running for their lives. It's also then that Lonni took on Huysman one on one with Huysman not Lonni being the one who first ran out of ammunition! Meanwhile back at the Babuba camp Ellen who was about to give up in saving Mekope's life, gangrene had already set in, saw that luck was on her side when the medication that she administrated to him miraculously borough the what looked like the dead man back to life!
P.S "White Witch Doctor"turned out to be the last movie that actor Everette Brown was to make. Brown who was in such 1930's classics as "I Am a Fugative From a Chain Gang" "King Kong" and "Gone with the wind " died almost four months before "White Witch Doctor" was released on October 25,1953.