Word: bwanas
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...Tramps' Ball; first prize-a bottle of white wine-had just been awarded to a 13-year-old girl in beatnik tights when alarm bells started to ring. In the ship's cinema, where Bob Hope was cavorting on the screen with Anita Ekberg in Call Me Bwana, the audience at first thought that the ringing bells were part of the film's plot. But the smell of smoke soon convinced them that something was amiss. Other passengers who had gone to bed early were not yet fully aware of the danger. No fire instructions were issued...
...Snakes in Our Pot." Though no Africans attended the party, word of the goings on quickly leaked out-and even more quickly was distorted. Before a bwana could say "Sanders of the River," police were searching the homes of partygoers for evidence of anti-government activity. At an angry session of Parliament, outraged ministers called for vengeance. "I am sure the Uganda flag must have been trampled on," shouted one backbencher. There were cries of "What a shame...
...Call Me Bwana. Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg and Edie Adams on a spy chase through darkest Congo. Hope springs eternal, but Ekberg is a couple of jumps ahead...
...Call Me Bwana. Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg and Edie Adams on a spy chase through darkest Congo. Hope springs eternal, but Ekberg is a couple of jumps ahead...
Hope is a bogus bwana who writes reams about his African adventures but has actually never been anywhere wilder than the Museum of Natural History. Drafted by the CIA, he is sent to the Congo to recover a moon capsule that went slightly off course. The Russians send Anita Ekberg, a bumptious intelligence agent, to waylay him. "If you are captured," Hope is instructed, "take a cyanide capsule. Death is instantaneous and clean." Hope gulps: "You mean, no side effects...