Timbuctoo is a 1933 British comedy film, co-directed by Walter Summers and Arthur B.
Woods for British International Pictures, and starring Henry Kendall and Margot Grahame.
[1] The film's slight storyline concerns a man (Kendall) who has a violent quarrel with his family over his fiancée (Grahame).
Feeling totally upset, he wants to get away from all the conflict and decides to travel overland to Timbuktu with its legendary reputation as one of the most remote and mysterious places in the world.
[2] Although the film is billed as a comedy, it contains a sequence of a hippopotamus being hunted and killed which some modern viewers have found extremely unpleasant and distressing.