Africa Screams

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Posted: Feb-28-2009

Great print of A+C's "Africa Screams"-Goodtimes Home Video

This Goodtimes Home Video edition-2000, is a excellent print. I enjoy this particulary silly A+C film. If you are an A+C fan get this edition, which is out of print. Other public domain copies of "Africa Screams" are very bad, but not this Goodtimes edition. It is worth a little extra money. I...

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Posted: Jul-16-2007

Foreign Adventure

The film starts with a comic scene in a bookstore. Two men offer $1,000 for a map in the book "Dark Safari". A woman offers $2,500 for the same map. Stanley Livington remembers that detail very well (too good to be true?). [The story and its subject are certainly dated.] Clyde Beatty plays...

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Posted: Jan-06-2007

On Safari with Bud and Lou!

Though it has been copied a million times, this fun romp through the jungle with Bud and Lou is sure to please classic film fans. Even Joe Besser and Shemp Howard come along on safari in Earl Baldwin's story of hidden diamonds. When Lou turns out to be the only person who can remember the map...

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Posted: Sep-06-2006

The Image Entertainment/Hal Roach DVD is the BEST version of this title!

Many cheapie companies offer this title at a lower price. Pass up those horrible copies and buy this excellent IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT / HAL ROACH STUDIOS DVD mastered from the original 35mm NITRATE NEGATIVE!This is the same excellent master film used by Image for their Laserdisc release. The only...

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Posted: May-11-2006

5 stars in hopes for non PUBLIC DOMAIN or best qulity dvd ever released

if this is a bad print then why they release it again every one knows that all the other releases are bad prints so then they would know they wouldnt make much money which is why I think this print will be the best quality dvd of africa Scraems ever released. They should also release jack and the...

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Posted: May-05-2005

Truly Brilliant

It's hard to know if the director makes the Abbott and Costello films work, or the timing of Bud and Lou.If you can see the Shows Bud and Lou did on the COLGATE Comedy Hour, its clear that Lou is a brilliant Improvisor, so whilst he did seem to forget his lines on the Colgate Comedy show, he...

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Posted: Feb-27-2002

One act that doen't stand test of time

I rented this mainly for my 5- and 3-year olds, who were predictably amused, though they volunteered that Abbott & Costello aren't as good as the Marx Brothers. That's putting it mildly.I also wanted to see if they were as entertaining as I remembered them from my childhood: They aren't. I can...

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Posted: Jul-13-2001

Classic Abbott & Costello!

Being born in Paterson NJ, I guess maybe I'm a little privy to the whole Abbott & Costello thing. I remember when channel 11 was WPIX..now it's WB11....but every Sunday morning; at 11:30AM, they'd run an Abbott & Costello film(they did this for years)and Africa Screams was one of our...

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Posted: Jan-04-2000

ONE OF THE TEAM'S BEST FILMS

AFRICA SCREAMS (1949) Huntington Hartford Productions Release Date: May 4, 1949 (New York City, New York) May 27, 1949 Runtime: 79 minutes Director: Charles Barton Producer: David S. Garber Huntington...

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Posted: Sep-16-1999

ONE OF ABBOTT & COSTELLO'S BEST FEATURES

A classic A & C film. The boys play two employees of a NY department store. Lou's claim that he can draw a map from a famous big game hunter's book, gets them involved with an unscrupoulous gang of fortune hunters who are organizing a safari to Africa, to hunt for diamonds. Two of the...

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