

1990·Adventure·2h 16m
7.1
★



The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire.
Directed by Bob Rafelson
based on novel or book
africa
river
expedition
nile
british empire
exploration
lake victoria
19th century
gay theme

Trailer

IMDB
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Cast

Patrick Bergin
Richard Burton

Iain Glen
John Hanning Speke

Richard E. Grant
Oliphant

Fiona Shaw
Isabel

John Savident
Lord Murchison

James Villiers
Lord Oliphant

Adrian Rawlins
Edward

Peter Vaughan
Lord Houghton

Delroy Lindo
Mabruki

Bernard Hill
Dr. Livingstone

Matthew Marsh
William

Richard Caldicot
Lord Russell
Crew

Bob Rafelson
Director

Bob Rafelson
Screenplay

Roger Deakins
Director of Photography

Mario Kassar
Executive Producer

Andrew G. Vajna
Executive Producer

Michael Silvers
Sound Editor

Roger Deakins
Camera Operator

Tim Lewis
Second Assistant Director

John Higgins
Gaffer

Ben Davis
Clapper Loader

Scott Stevenson
Assistant Editor

Todd Boekelheide
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Popular Reviews
3 reviews
Tommy

Type of thing that once you start watching it’s impossible to pull your attention from it. Watched most of this at a bar event at Sugarloaf, it was awesome. The visuals, cinematography, animation, insanely talented athletes, and obviously the music all come together to make a truly memorable experience.
Man those colors 😍.
Man those colors 😍.
Type of thing that once you start watching it’s impossible to pull your attention from it. Watched most of this at a bar event at Sugarloaf, it was awesome. The visuals, cinematography, animation, insanely talented athletes, and obviously the music all come together to make a truly memorable experience.
Man those colors 😍.
Man those colors 😍.
Alex Berkowitz
4.0★ · 07/17/22

Mountains of the Mid.
The best part of this movie is the African music that opens it. It’s also the gay Victorian England story but in not the most obvious way, so there’s that.
That being said, the movie is also very racist, boring, overacted, horribly paced, visually uninteresting, colonialist, imperialist, capitalist, and worst of all: Brtish*.
What is it with the 90s and the entire western world infantilizing African people in media? Some of the scenes with the African chieftains, interpreters and villagers are more comical and treat black people more like barbaric children than Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.
I actually can’t tell who’s more racist, the British “people” who think they discovered the base of the Nile, or the Americans who made this godforsaken film.
I will say however that the movie does do a good job of showing how the “civilized” world is actually more “barbaric,” as you have the vulture-like publisher character (Richard E. Grant) trying to divide the homeboys: Speke, a racist army lieutenant (played by Iain Glen; Ser Jorah Mormont in GoT) and Burton, the liberal guy who wants to be black so bad (Patrick Bergen) so that he can sell more books.
hasa diga eebowai for allowing this lol
P. S. I was unprepared to see Aunt Petunia’s tiddies
The best part of this movie is the African music that opens it. It’s also the gay Victorian England story but in not the most obvious way, so there’s that.
That being said, the movie is also very racist, boring, overacted, horribly paced, visually uninteresting, colonialist, imperialist, capitalist, and worst of all: Brtish*.
What is it with the 90s and the entire western world infantilizing African people in media? Some of the scenes with the African chieftains, interpreters and villagers are more comical and treat black people more like barbaric children than Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.
I actually can’t tell who’s more racist, the British “people” who think they discovered the base of the Nile, or the Americans who made this godforsaken film.
I will say however that the movie does do a good job of showing how the “civilized” world is actually more “barbaric,” as you have the vulture-like publisher character (Richard E. Grant) trying to divide the homeboys: Speke, a racist army lieutenant (played by Iain Glen; Ser Jorah Mormont in GoT) and Burton, the liberal guy who wants to be black so bad (Patrick Bergen) so that he can sell more books.
hasa diga eebowai for allowing this lol
P. S. I was unprepared to see Aunt Petunia’s tiddies
Mountains of the Mid.
The best part of this movie is the African music that opens it. It’s also the gay Victorian England story but in not the most obvious way, so there’s that.
That being said, the movie is also very racist, boring, overacted, horribly paced, visually uninteresting, colonialist, imperialist, capitalist, and worst of all: Brtish*.
What is it with the 90s and the entire western world infantilizing African people in media? Some of the scenes with the African chieftains, interpreters and villagers are more comical and treat black people more like barbaric children than Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.
I actually can’t tell who’s more racist, the British “people” who think they discovered the base of the Nile, or the Americans who made this godforsaken film.
I will say however that the movie does do a good job of showing how the “civilized” world is actually more “barbaric,” as you have the vulture-like publisher character (Richard E. Grant) trying to divide the homeboys: Speke, a racist army lieutenant (played by Iain Glen; Ser Jorah Mormont in GoT) and Burton, the liberal guy who wants to be black so bad (Patrick Bergen) so that he can sell more books.
hasa diga eebowai for allowing this lol
P. S. I was unprepared to see Aunt Petunia’s tiddies
The best part of this movie is the African music that opens it. It’s also the gay Victorian England story but in not the most obvious way, so there’s that.
That being said, the movie is also very racist, boring, overacted, horribly paced, visually uninteresting, colonialist, imperialist, capitalist, and worst of all: Brtish*.
What is it with the 90s and the entire western world infantilizing African people in media? Some of the scenes with the African chieftains, interpreters and villagers are more comical and treat black people more like barbaric children than Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.
I actually can’t tell who’s more racist, the British “people” who think they discovered the base of the Nile, or the Americans who made this godforsaken film.
I will say however that the movie does do a good job of showing how the “civilized” world is actually more “barbaric,” as you have the vulture-like publisher character (Richard E. Grant) trying to divide the homeboys: Speke, a racist army lieutenant (played by Iain Glen; Ser Jorah Mormont in GoT) and Burton, the liberal guy who wants to be black so bad (Patrick Bergen) so that he can sell more books.
hasa diga eebowai for allowing this lol
P. S. I was unprepared to see Aunt Petunia’s tiddies
nix
2.1★ · 03/21/25

Riley
8.0★ · 02/22/25
