Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
1950
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- 1949 · Comedy · 1h 19m
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Even though Africa Screams only has about 60 audience ratings, the audience score is 38%, and that's too low. This movie doesn't deserve a 38%. Africa Screams was not bad, it was amazing.
- (56)
- Comedy
- Charles Barton
6/10. "Africa Screams" offers some funny moments. jimtinder 14 February 2001. "Africa Screams" was Abbott and Costello's independent production for 1949, filmed at Nassour Studios. A&C are booksellers who find themselves on an African expedition; the leader of the expedition (lovely Hillary Brooke) is after diamonds.
Africa Screams: Directed by Charles Barton. With Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck. Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
- (4.1K)
- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Charles Barton
- 1949-05-27
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Parents need to know that Abbott and Costello: Africa Screams is a 1949 movie in which the legendary comedy duo finds themselves deep in the jungles of Africa dodging alligators, lions, bears, and cannibals. The most troubling aspect is the stereotypical portrayal of native Africans, who do little more than grunt, carry heavy objects for the ...
- Bud Abbott, Clyde Beatty, Lou Costello
- Charles Barton
- Legend Films
In the opening scenes of this independently produced Abbott and Costello comedy, Lou Costello is frightened by a kitten. Everyone who has ever seen an Abbott and Costello film of course knows what will happen next: Before you can say African diamonds and Hillary Brooke, a horrified Lou is confronted with all kinds of wildlife fauna, from Burton Wenland in a gorilla suit to Clyde Beatty's caged ...
Surprisingly, Arica Screams (1949) is just the third Abbott & Costello movie I've seen, considering how much I love the team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Africa Screams (1949) has Lou and Bud as bookstore clerks who get roped into going on safari in the jungles of Africa, looking for a "gargantuan orangutang" and diamonds.
