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Mountains of the Moon (1990)
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23 February 1990 (USA)
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The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Patrick Bergin | ... | Richard Francis Burton |
 | Iain Glen | ... | John Hanning Speke |
| Richard E. Grant | ... | Larry Oliphant |
| Fiona Shaw | ... | Isabel Arundell (Mrs Burton as from 1861) |
| John Savident | ... | Lord Murchison |
| James Villiers | ... | Lord Oliphant |
| Adrian Rawlins | ... | Edward |
| Peter Vaughan | ... | Lord Houghton |
 | Delroy Lindo | ... | Mabruki |
 | Bernard Hill | ... | Dr. David Livingstone |
| Matthew Marsh | ... | William |
| Richard Caldicot | ... | Lord Russell |
 | Christopher Fulford | ... | Herne |
 | Garry Cooper | ... | Stroyan |
| Roshan Seth | ... | Ben Amir |
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136 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Factual errors: Although Larry Oliphant is portrayed as a homosexual, by all accounts he was in real life heterosexual: the filmmakers changed his sexual orientation to create a more dramatic reason for Speke's betrayal of Burton after all they had gone through together.
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Arab chief in Cairo:
In this wilderness you will find only Allah's terrible whimsy.
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Spoofed in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
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Wagogo Marriage Ritual
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| a burton bio pic | razaali1984 |
| spoiler alert: Speke's death | kbird-4 |
| Earwig? *spoiler alert* | travisjustinwhite-1 |
| reviewer error | upert |
| Missing Fencing scene. | Jerry63 |
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A great story, beautifully filmed and acted about two Victorian era explorers. Irish-born Sir Richard Francis Burton, one of the greatest explorers in history, is in search of knowledge. English-born dilletante John Hanning Speke joins Burton's quest in search of glory. Together they search for the answer to one of the most elusive geographical questions of their time - what is the Nile's source? The film accurately shows how the Royal Geographical Society and other outside interests played Burton and Speke against each other for their own gain.
The film's tagline really says it all: "Two strangers made friends by a savage world. Two friends made enemies by a civilized world."