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Africa Screams (1949)
American Adventure Comedy.
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 expedition to the jungles of Africa. With Stanley posing as a seasoned hunter, they accompany explorer Diana Emerson (Hillary Brooke) on a quest for a hidden diamond mine. However, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals come between the treasure-seeking party and their destination.
Africa Screams was the first independently financed film that Bud Abbott and Lou Costello made while under contract with “Universal.” It was released by “United Artists.”
| Directed by | Charles Barton |
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| Produced by | Huntington Hartford Edward Nassour |
| Written by | Earl Baldwin |
| Screenplay by | Martin Ragaway Leonard B. Stern |
| Starring | Bud Abbott Lou Costello Clyde Beatty Frank Buck Max Baer Buddy Baer Shemp Howard Joe Besser |
| Music by | Walter Schumann |
| Cinematography | Charles Van Enger |
| Edited by | Frank Gross |
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Huntington Hartford Productions
Nassour Studios |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time
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79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 |
| Box office | $1.5 million |
