White Witch Doctor is a 1953 American adventure horror film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, and Walter Slezak.

Made by 20th Century Fox, it was produced by Otto Lang from a screenplay by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, based on the 1950 novel by Louise Allender Stinetorf (1900–1992).

The arrival of nurse Ellen Burton to the Belgian Congo is unwelcome to hunter John "Lonni" Douglas, who captures animals for zoos.

In his memoir The Director's Cut,[3] Baker writes that at the start of production he spent four months shooting location footage in the Belgian Congo under arduous conditions.

A diplomatic solution was found by Lew Schreiber, described by Baker as the "hatchet man" for Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox.