The next non-Bond Eon Productions release would not be until the 2014 film The Silent Storm, followed by Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool in 2017. In the original novel by Ian Fleming, published in 1957, the scene happens in a trapdoor situated in Marilyn Monroe's mouth on a poster for Niagara. Krilencu attempts to escape through a window, which is situated in Anita Ekberg's mouth, on the wall-sized poster: 'She should have kept her mouth shut,' Bond says. A similar thing had happened to James Bond in the first 007 film, played seriously, rather than for laughs.Ĭall Me Bwana is 'plugged' in Eon Productions' 1963 Bond film From Russia with Love during a sequence where Ali Kerim Bey assassinates the Russian agent Krilencu with a sniper rifle. No, Hope's character is asleep in a tent when a tarantula begins crawling up his leg. Production director Syd Cain recalled that originally wild African animals from British zoos were to be released onto the golf course sequence but the idea was shelved when they caused expensive damage. Broccoli subsequently paid Jarrico $2,500 for four weeks' uncredited work. space capsule in Africa, but no filmable story had emerged.' Jarrico believed the script needed logic. In October 1962, after being in production for two weeks, producer Broccoli hired novelist Paul Jarrico to do a 'fast rewrite.' Six writers had already worked on the script, 'hundreds of jokes had been written about a bumbling explorer and a CIA agent searching for a U.S. In fact, the film was indeed being written during shooting. Adams' original role was given to Anita Ekberg, but as Hope had promised Adams a role, the script was rewritten to add a new female character. One day on the set, she met a stuntwoman dressed like her character, throwing a male stuntman in a jiu jitsu throw Adams realised that now her character was a secret agent. She remembered that the film seemed to be written as it went along initially her character was a nuclear scientist, then a big-game hunter.

Įdie Adams thought that she was actually going to Africa and had painful inoculations. The film was originally intended to be shot entirely on location in Kenya but the problems of the Mau Mau Uprising led the producers to only have second unit cinematography led by John Coquillon. United Artists made The Beatles film with Walter Shenson and A Hard Day's Night was more successful than Call Me Bwana. Saltzman laughed and asked why he would want to make a film about four young long-haired kids from Liverpool when he had Bob Hope. Zec replied that he had seen a British rock and roll group called The Beatles that had sellout crowds and thought about featuring them in a film. When asked by journalist and close Broccoli affiliate Donald Zec if they had any ideas for their non- Bond film, Harry Saltzman, who had previously made The Iron Petticoat with Hope, suggested a Bob Hope movie. Many original suggestions were meant to showcase Sean Connery, who turned them all down, as he did not want his career totally in the hands of Eon. Broccoli's autobiography When the Snow Melts, Eon Productions was originally contracted by United Artists to make two films a year for them: one James Bond film and one non- Bond film. Kennedy in his famous rocking chair is parodied with his Russian counterpart Nikita Khrushchev rocking in a chair that squeaks loudly.Īccording to Albert R. A scene involving an unseen President John F. Golfer Arnold Palmer also makes a brief cameo, playing a crazy round of golf with Hope-a scene revisited in the film Spies Like Us where Hope makes a cameo appearance and plays golf through a tent. Hope's co-stars include Edie Adams and Anita Ekberg playing secret agents.

Based on his false reputation as an 'Africa Expert', he is recruited by the United States Government and NASA to locate a missing secret space probe before it can be located by hostile forces. Merriwether lives his false reputation as a great white hunter to the point of living in a Manhattan apartment furnished to look like an African safari lodge complete with sound effects records of African fauna. No.īob Hope plays Matt Merriwether, a New York writer who has passed off his uncle's memoirs of explorations in Africa as his own. It was made by most of the same crew as Dr. Largely set in Africa, it was the only film made by Eon Productions not about the fictional MI6 agent James Bond until the 2014 film The Silent Storm. Call Me Bwana is a 1963 British Technicolor farce film starring Bob Hope and Anita Ekberg and directed by Gordon Douglas.

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