Deux Nigauds en Afrique

Titre original : Africa Screams

1949
F
1h 30m

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Deux Nigauds en Afrique (1949)

Abbott & Costello search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals...

Liretrailer2 min 22 s

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Farce Action Adventure Comedy

Abbott et Costello recherchent des diamants en Afrique, rencontrant en chemin un artilleur malvoyant, un lion affamé et une tribu de cannibales.Abbott et Costello recherchent des diamants en Afrique, rencontrant en chemin un artilleur malvoyant, un lion affamé et une tribu de cannibales.Abbott et Costello recherchent des diamants en Afrique, rencontrant en chemin un artilleur malvoyant, un lion affamé et une tribu de cannibales.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

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4,2 k

MA NOTE

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Bobo
(as Burton Wenland)

Bobby Barber

Chauffeur
(uncredited)

Charles Gemora

The Ape
(uncredited)

Arthur Hecht

Mr. Mercer
(uncredited)

Tanner

Lion
(uncredited)

Bill Walker

Interpreter
(uncredited)

Martin Wilkins

Cannibal Chief
(uncredited)

Histoire

Modifier

Le saviez-vous

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Anecdotes
Features the only on-screen pairing of Joe Besser and Shemp Howard. Shemp was an original member of The Three Stooges. He left the group and was replaced by his younger brother, Curly Howard. Shemp later returned, replacing Curly, and is generally considered "the fourth stooge". Besser later replaced Shemp, and is considered "the fifth stooge".

Gaffes
The "Orangutan Gargantua" is in fact a gorilla, portrayed in exaggerated caricatured fashion. True orangutans are found only in Southeast Asia, not Africa.

Citations
Buzz Johnson: I can't understand why you have this terrible fear of animals in you. What is it?
Stanley Livington: When I was a little baby I was scared by my piggy bank.
Buzz Johnson: That's nonsense.
[walks away]
Stanley Livington: [Grabs Buzz] You wanna hear something worse?
Buzz Johnson: What?
Stanley Livington: I was 15 years old before I ate my first animal cracker.

Générique farfelu
End Credit - The Gorilla spells out The End from some lettered blocks.

Autres versions
Also available in a computer-colorized version.

Connexions
Edited into Dark Jungle Theater: Africa Screams (2015)

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Commentaire en vedette

6/10

Weaker A&C, But Watchable

Understand, I like Abbott and Costello films. Their two top films (...Meet Frankenstein and The Time of Their Lives) are comedic classics. This, alas, is a minor effort, though other movie comics appear in it.

Possible spoilers in the following.

The film takes a simple story and adds some comedic routines that could be applied to any equivalent film. Costello reacting to animal 'menaces" is usually good, and he's at prime form in this film. However, even in the most comedic situations, I'd have thought that even Lou's character would have noticed all the help he was getting from the gorilla.

In the beginning of the film, the cover story is that an expedition is set up to go to Africa to hunt a legendary ape, Orang-Utan Gigantis. That translates to "great big Orang-Utan." But Orang-Utans aren't found in Africa! The chief of the cannibals mumbles some words, one of which is "ungawa," a Swahili word that means either "beat it," or "let's get moving," depending on context, but which is used as color in this one, having nothing to do with either meaning.

Amusing, but not their top form.