Africa Screams

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Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Adventure
Release Year: 1949
Country: USA
Runtime: 79
Rating: 6.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Charles Barton
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

Youll Go Ape Over This DVD!

Adventure Has Never Been Dizzier as Abbott & Costello Invade the Dark Continent!

Abbott & Costello on the Silliest Safari Ever!

A Three Ring Circus of African Thrills and Laughs!

A Zany, Hilarious Romp!

Those Joy Boys are in hot water again in DARKEST LAFF-RICA!

Writing by: Earl Baldwin - (story)
Earl Baldwin - (screenplay)
Martin Ragaway - uncredited
Leonard Stern - uncredited

Produced by: David S. Garber - associate producer
Huntington Hartford - producer
Edward Nassour - producer
Donald Crisp - executive producer (uncredited)

Cast: Bud Abbott - Buzz Johnson
Lou Costello - Stanley Livington
Clyde Beatty - Himself
Frank Buck - Himself
Max Baer - Grappler McCoy
Buddy Baer - Boots Wilson
Hillary Brooke - Diana Emerson
Shemp Howard - Gunner
Joe Besser - Harry
Burt Wenland - Bobo (as Burton Wenland)
Charles Gemora - The Ape (uncredited)

Music: Walter Schumann
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Plot Outline: Abbott & Costello search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals...
Plot: When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking fellow bookseller Stanley knows a great deal about Africa they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe. After encounters with lion tamers, giant apes and a wild river, Buzz returns to America. Stanley finds diamonds and buys the store they once worked for, hiring Buzz as its elevator operator.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
With thanks to people of Robinvale, Mildura & Elston, shires of Swan Hill, Mildura & Balranald

Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: Stanleys real eyebrows are visible and obviously covered with makeup during the high eyebrow raise scene.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
There is a scene where Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are talking in their tent and Joe Besser dashes into the tent, grabs a glass of water and dashes out again. He repeats this several times until Abbott stops him and asks why hes so thirsty. Besser replies that hes not thirsty, its that his tent is on fire. That was based on an incident in Costellos childhood, when he accidentally set some clothes in his bedroom on fire. His father was in the living room, which was between the kitchen and Costellos bedroom. Costello, not wanting to let his father know that he had set his room on fire, dashed back and forth between the kitchen and his bedroom with glasses of water until his father finally asked what was going on, whereupon Costello was forced to tell what he had done.
SPOILER: The little "mini-car" that Lou Costello drives up to the office building near the end of the film isnt a movie prop car, as some have claimed. Its a Crosley, which was a real car produced by the Crosley Motor Co. from 1939-1942, discontinued during the war years, then resumed in 1946 until the company folded in 1952.