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Africa Screams is a 1949 American adventure comedy film starring Abbott and Costello and directed by Charles Barton that parodies the safari genre. The title is a play on the title of the 1930 documentary Africa Speaks!
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.
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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Charles Barton
- 1949-05-27
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.Original title: Afri...
- 79 min
- 179.9K
- Cult Cinema Classics
Jul 7, 2017 · 10. 2.2K views 6 years ago. Diana Emerson (Hillary Brooke) is in the book department of Klopper's Department store looking for a copy of the book Dark Safari, written by the famed explorer...
- 76 min
- 2.2K
- A classic of cinematograph
Making no attempt to duplicate the look of a travel documentary, Africa Screams wastes little time in packing off Lou and Bud to a backlot Africa complete with a guy in a gorilla costume and Hollywood extras pretending to be Ubangi tribesmen. Lou plays Stanley Livington, a bookstore clerk whose co-worker Buzz (Bud) convinces him to pose as a ...
- Charles Barton, Norman Abbott, Joseph Kenny
- Bud Abbott
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When the bookish and mild-mannered Stanley Livingston (Lou Costello) agrees to go along with a daft scheme thought up by his friend Buzz Johnson (Bud Abbott), the bumbling duo gets roped into an...
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- Comedy