Africa Screams
| Africa Screams | |
|---|---|
| File:Africa Screams colorized title screen.JPG Title screen from the colorized version | |
| Directed by | Charles Barton |
| Written by | Earl Baldwin Martin Ragaway Leonard Stern |
| Produced by | Edward Nassour |
| Starring | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello |
| Music by | Walter Schumann |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates | May 4, 1949 (New York City, New York) May 27, 1949 |
Running time | 80 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Unknown |
Africa Screams is a 1949 comedy film starring the team of Abbott & Costello (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello) and featuring Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser, Max Baer and Buddy Baer. In the film, Abbott and Costello play a couple of book sellers who are conned into traveling to the jungles of Africa to find hidden diamonds for a woman, along the way, meeting a visually impaired gunner (Howard), a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals, among other dangers.
The film was originally released theatrically by United Artists. It is currently in the public domain. A colorized version was made available by Legend Films in 2006—the film had never been colorized before.
External links
- Africa Screams at IMDb
- Movie Tome
- A few free to download clips from the movie in WMV and RM formats.
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