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Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Max Baer, Buddy Baer, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck, Shemp Howard, Joe Besser
Running Time: 79 mins.
Vault: FEATURES
In the opening scenes of this wacky Abbott and Costello comedy, Lou is frightened by a little kitten -- Everyone who has ever seen an Abbott and Costello film of course knows what will happen next: Before you can say African diamonds and Hillary Brooke, a horrified Lou is confronted with all kinds of wildlife fauna, from Burton Wenland in a gorilla suit to Clyde Beatty's caged lions. Beatty testing his captured beasts before shipping them off to the circus is just one of the many politically incorrect episodes in this comedy. Lou Costello was famously frightened by Universal's veteran monster stars in the well-received Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), and Africa Screams takes full advantage of the comic possibilities that his terror provides.
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