Africa Screams is a 1949 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The film is notable for having two members of the Three Stooges (Shemp Howard and Joe Besser) working together in a non-Stooge vehicle.
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Some classic routines in this Charles Barton directed film with a most curious cast and surprise performances by Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck. Also some unique Shemp Howard, and Joe Bessler. the latter looking much like a separated-at-birth Lou Costello clone…Hillary Brooke was her usual calm, cool, and sultry self…At one point Bud Abbott delivers the line: “I had an empire in my hands and I let it slip through my fingers.” Seven or eight years later the IRS would insist on that very thing!! This film was shown last week on the big screen at the Egyptian Theater in Coos Bay, Oregon!! If you are an A&C fan this one is essential!!
I somehow missed this comment until now. I think one of the reasons you were able to see “Africa Screams” at the Egyptian is an email I sent to their program director about a year ago.
My sister lives a few miles from Coos Bay in Myrtle Point, Oregon and was mentioning this restored vintage theater. I suggested that they play some of these public domain films because they didn’t have to pay royalties on them and that UCLA film labs loaned prints to non-profits like the Egyptian.
I’m not sure how much influence my email had, aside from a thank you note from Teri Fisher (the program director) , but I do know that shortly after that the Egyptian started playing these vintage films
It’s nice to know you did a good deed. At least probably.
Small world huh?
http://www.egyptian-theater.com/
Great to see them again!