Africa Screams (1949) | |
| Director(s) | Charles Barton |
| Producer(s) | Huntington Hartford, Edward Nassour, Donald Crisp (executive uncredited) |
| Top Genres | Adventure, Comedy, Family |
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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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Buzz Johnson:
[to Stanley] I'm going into the cage and you behave yourself. I can't understand why he gets so scared.
[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.
Stanley Livington: [while in Africa] So if I draw the map I can go home?
Buzz Johnson: What do you want to go home for?
Stanley Livington: I forgot something.
Buzz Johnson: What did you forget?
Stanley Livington: I forgot to stay there.
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[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.
Stanley Livington: [while in Africa] So if I draw the map I can go home?
Buzz Johnson: What do you want to go home for?
Stanley Livington: I forgot something.
Buzz Johnson: What did you forget?
Stanley Livington: I forgot to stay there.
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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 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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