Call Me Bwana

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Call Me Bwana is a 1963 farce starring Bob Hope. It is largely set in Africa. It is probably best-known for being the only film made by EON Productions which is not about the Ian Fleming spy character, James Bond. Hope's co-stars include Anita Ekberg and Edie Adams. Bob Hope plays a New York writer who has passed off his uncle's memoirs of explorations in Africa as his own and is then hired by NASA to locate a missing secret space probe before it can be located by hostile forces. Golfer Arnold Palmer makes a brief cameo, playing a crazy round of golf with Hope—a scene revisited in Spies Like Us where Hope makes a cameo appearance and plays golf through a tent.

Bwana is Swahili term of respect commonly used in East Africa.

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An advertisement for this film appears on an exterior wall in Istanbul in the film From Russia with Love.

When meeting Golfer Arnold Palmer, Palmer relates to the fact that his golf clubs were owned by a former friend of Bob's. Bob dumps the golf clubs on the ground and sees they're bent. He then says the line, "Yep...those are Crosby's alright."