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Released
1952 · FILM

Bwana Devil

The world's FIRST FEATURE LENGTH motion picture in Natural Vision 3 Dimension—A lion in your lap! A lover in your arms!

Runtime
79 min
Adventure

Synopsis

British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to kill the beasts before they maul everyone on his crew.

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Principal cast & crew: 15

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John HoffmanShot by Joseph F BirocScored by Gordon Jenkins

Also known as

  • Bwana, der Teufelde
  • Buana Devilit

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