Africa Screams (1949) |
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| Director(s) | Charles Barton |
| Producer(s) | Donald Crisp (uncredited), Edward Nassour, Huntington Hartford |
| Top Genres | Adventure, Comedy, Family |
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Bud Abbott(as Buzz Johnson)
Africa Screams
Released
1949
Africa Screams
Released
1949
Bud Abbott
(as Buzz Johnson)
Lou Costello(as Stanley Livington)
Africa Screams
Released
1949
Africa Screams
Released
1949
Lou Costello
(as Stanley Livington)
Max Baer(as Grappler McCoy)
Africa Screams
Released
1949
Africa Screams
Released
1949
Max Baer
(as Grappler McCoy)
Africa Screams Overview:
Africa Screams (1949) was a Comedy - Adventure Film directed by Charles Barton and produced by Donald Crisp, Edward Nassour and Huntington Hartford.
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Africa Screams Quotes:
Stanley Livington:
Listen boss, I'm not going along. You've got no right to put me in a thing like that. You're always putting me right in the middle
Buzz Johnson: Don't tell me that. Don't you give me that. No arguments.
Buzz Johnson: Don't tell me that. Don't you give me that. No arguments.
[last lines]
Buzz Johnson: Mr Livington, what about that raise I've been asking for?
Stanley Livington: I'll talk to my partner if he's in.
Buzz Johnson: Thank you, Sir.
Stanley Livington: He's in.
Buzz Johnson: Mr Livington, what about that raise I've been asking for?
Stanley Livington: I'll talk to my partner if he's in.
Buzz Johnson: Thank you, Sir.
Stanley Livington: He's in.
Stanley Livington:
Now that I'm alone, what's going to happen to me now?
Buzz Johnson:
[to Stanley] I'm going into the cage and you behave yourself. I can't understand why he gets so scared.
[first lines]
Stanley Livington: Stay right where you are. Don't move, stay there now. Steady. Now sit up. Sit up. Sit up you. Up you fool. Up. Sit up I said. Sit up. Up.
See More Quotes from Africa ScreamsStanley Livington: Stay right where you are. Don't move, stay there now. Steady. Now sit up. Sit up. Sit up you. Up you fool. Up. Sit up I said. Sit up. Up.
Africa Screams Facts
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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 he's so thirsty. Besser replies that he's not thirsty, it's that his tent is on fire. That was based on an incident in Costello's 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 Costello's 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.
The gorilla was originally meant to be a female simian pursuing Costello. However, the Breen Office censors that enforced the Production Code in Hollywood demanded the gorilla's gender be changed as they felt a female gorilla's pursuit of a man would be on par with bestiality.
Features the only on-screen pairing of Joe Besser and Shemp Howard, who were respectively considered the 4th and 5th members of The Three Stooges.
The little "mini-car" that Lou Costello drives up to the office building near the end of the film isn't a movie prop car, as some have claimed. It's 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.
The comment by Boots (Buddy Baer) to Grappler (Max Baer), "I'll hit you harder than Louis ever did", is a reference to boxer Joe Louis who battled both Baers in the 1930s.