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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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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.


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.


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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.
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.
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.
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