Africa Screams / Jack & the Beanstalk [DVD]

By the late Forties, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were superstars. And sprinkled among their usual pictures for Universal were wildly original independent films that gave them more control and showed off the influence of their vaudville roots. Africa Screams and Jack and the Beanstalk offer perfect examples of these classics made outside the studio system. This DVD features pristine prints of both films in a package that will certainly entertain as it sparks nostalgia. In Africa Screams (1949), Bud & Lou find themselves on an African safari. And in one of their funniest films. Over the course of the picture, they encounter lions, a giant ape, uncut diamonds, a crocodile, crooks, cannibals and a great cast that includes Hillary Brooke and Joe Besser, who'd both end up in the Abbott & Costello TV show; lion-tamer Clyde Beatty; famed explorer Frank Buck; boxers Max and Buddy Baer; and Shemp Howard, who took time off from The Three Stooges to play a very near-sighted big game hunter. Jack And The Beanstalk (1952) gave Fifties audiences their first look at the boys in color. Managing to work Bud & Lou into a faithful musical adaptation of the fairy tale, the script places less emphasis on the team's burlesque origins and focuses more on their appeal to children. As Jack, Costello gets to show off his pantomime skills. And, naturally, Abbott is the butcher that cons Jack out of the cow.
ASIN: B00000IC7V
VSKU: DBV.B00000IC7V.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Bud Abbott|Hillary Brooke|Burt Wenland|Buddy Baer|Clyde Beatty|Frank Buck|Max Baer|Lou Costello|Joe Besser|Charles Gemora|Arthur Hecht|Shemp Howard|Charles Barton|Earl Baldwin|Jean Yarbrough|Martin Ragaway|Nathaniel Curtis|Leonard Stern|Pat Costello
Binding: Dvd
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