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 thing missing here is the Bloopers & Out-takes that were on the Laserdisc.

This movie is the best of the five independent films that Abbott & Costello made in my opinion. And it stands up better than most of their 1950's Universal films. Where else will you see Bud & Lou teamed up with some of the THREE STOOGES? Shemp Howerd and Joe Besser join Abbott & Costello's safari to add to the laughs!
Besser would later join Bud & Lou for their 1950's TV show as "Stinky" before becoming a Stooge!

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5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF ABBOTT & COSTELLO'S BEST FEATURES, September 16, 1999

By A Customer

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 film's BEST highlights are the team's encounters with then famous big game hunters Clyde Beatty and Frank Buck. The film also teams them with Hillary Brook (who co-starred with them in the film "ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET CAPTAIN KIDD", and later co-starred with them in the first season of their TV series "THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW"), and Joe Besser and Shemp Howard ( of "THE THREE STOOGES". Howard co-starred with the team in their films "BUCK PRIVATES", "IN THE NAVY", and "IT AIN'T HAY". Besser co-starred with them in their TV series "THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW" playing the part of 'STINKY').

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5.0 out of 5 stars BEST VERSION OUT THERE, May 27, 2009

By	David W. Wagner - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Abbott and Costello in Africa Screams - In COLOR! (DVD)

AFRICA SCREAMS has been in the public domain for years. This dusted-off version looks and sounds the best of a-n-y version I've seen. This is the first version I've seen with the Nassour Studios logo opening the film and it has closed-captioning, as well. I skip the colorized version, as I oppose that sort of thing. However, Legend Films has made this one worth the wait. The scene where the tribal chief is scared white by the giant gorilla is here intact, as well, whereas I've often seen it where his face has been blurred over with darkness. I've found this to be a fine film of the team's, as opposed to, say, MEXICAN HAYRIDE or LITTLE GIANT. If you're still hunting a fine print of AFRICA SCREAMS for your A & C collection ... well, here it is.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not one of their best
The basic plot of the film has Hillary Brooke looking for a book about an African safari containing a map leading to a fortune in diamonds. Read more

Published 4 days ago by Robert S. Gartner

5.0 out of 5 stars Great print of A+C's "Africa Screams"-Goodtimes Home Video
This Goodtimes Home Video edition-2000, is an 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. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Max Dembo

3.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more

Published 24 months ago by Acute Observer

5.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more

Published on May 10, 2006 by R.M.S. Titanic

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Brilliant
It's hard to know if the director makes the Abbott and Costello films work, or the timing of Bud and Lou. Read more

Published on May 4, 2005 by Santeria

2.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more

Published on February 26, 2002 by R. MCCOSKER

5.0 out of 5 stars 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.... Read more

Published on July 12, 2001 by jeff nach

5.0 out of 5 stars ONE OF THE TEAM'S BEST FILMS
AFRICA SCREAMS (1949)
Huntington Hartford Productions
Release Date: May 4, 1949 (New York City, New York)
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Published on January 3, 2000 by BILLY ANTIMISIARIS

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