Back Africa Screams Welsh Verrücktes Afrika German آفریقا فریاد میزند Persian Deux Nigauds en Afrique French Africa Screams HIF Africa strilla Italian 凸凹猛獣狩 Japanese Abbott i Costello – Afrykańska przygoda Polish Doi nătărăi în Africa Romanian
| Africa Screams | |
|---|---|
 Original theatrical release lobby card | |
| Directed by | Charles Barton |
| Written by | Earl Baldwin |
| Screenplay by | Martin Ragaway Leonard B. Stern |
| Produced by | Huntington Hartford Edward Nassour |
| Starring | Bud Abbott Lou Costello Clyde Beatty Frank Buck Max Baer Buddy Baer Shemp Howard Joe Besser |
| Cinematography | Charles Van Enger |
| Edited by | Frank Gross |
| Music by | Walter Schumann |
Production companies | Huntington Hartford Productions Nassour Studios |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000[1] |
| Box office | $1.5 million[2] |
Africa Screams is a 1949 American adventure comedy film starring Abbott and Costello and directed by Charles Barton that parodies the safari genre. The title is a play on the title of the 1930 documentary Africa Speaks! The supporting cast features Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck, Hillary Brooke, Max Baer, Buddy Baer, Shemp Howard and Joe Besser. The film entered the public domain in 1977.
- ^ Furmanek, Bob; Palumbo, Ron (1991). Abbott and Costello in Hollywood. New York: Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51605-0 p 187
- ^ "Top Grossers of 1949". Variety. 4 January 1950. p. 59.