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Ma che cos'è quest'Africa!

Titolo originale: So This Is Africa
  • 1933
  • Passed
  • 1h 1min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
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Raquel Torres, Bert Wheeler, and Robert Woolsey in Ma che cos'è quest'Africa! (1933)
CommediaMusicaleSlapstick

Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaBert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. They are hired by a movie producer who wishes to send t... Leggi tuttoBert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. They are hired by a movie producer who wishes to send them and their lions to Africa with a great naturalist to make a jungle picture. An earlier... Leggi tuttoBert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. They are hired by a movie producer who wishes to send them and their lions to Africa with a great naturalist to make a jungle picture. An earlier expedition by this same naturalist was a failure because she is afraid of animals. They a... Leggi tutto

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    • Edward F. Cline
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Norman Krasna
  • Star
    • Robert Woolsey
    • Bert Wheeler
    • Raquel Torres
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    6,5/10
    175
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Edward F. Cline
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Norman Krasna
    • Star
      • Robert Woolsey
      • Bert Wheeler
      • Raquel Torres
    • 8Recensioni degli utenti
    • 10Recensioni della critica
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    Interpreti principali22

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    Robert Woolsey
    Robert Woolsey
    • Alexander
    Bert Wheeler
    Bert Wheeler
    • Wilbur
    Raquel Torres
    Raquel Torres
    • Tarzana
    Esther Muir
    Esther Muir
    • Mrs. Johnson-Martini
    Berton Churchill
    Berton Churchill
    • Movie Producer
    • (as Burton Churchill)
    Spencer Charters
    Spencer Charters
    • Doctor
    Henry Armetta
    Henry Armetta
    • Street Cleaner
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Eddie Clayton
    • Elevator Operator
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Patricia Douglas
    • Amazon Dancer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Charles Gemora
    Charles Gemora
    • Josephine the Gorilla
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    Carl Gibson
    • Dancer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Leon Hampton
    • Dancer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Patsy Hunter
    • Dancer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Mae E. Johnson
    • Dancer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Rosalie Lincoln
    • Dancer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Juanita Moore
    Juanita Moore
    • Dancer
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Clarence Moorehouse
    • Gorilla
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
    Spec O'Donnell
    Spec O'Donnell
    • Johnny
    • (non citato nei titoli originali)
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      • Edward F. Cline
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Norman Krasna
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    9cellorey

    Wheeler and Woolsey's most notorious film

    This is another classic in Wheeler and Woolsey's long line of slapstick films. However, it is one of the more difficult ones to obtain a copy of. I managed to get the non-TV print (which is 54 minutes) and mine runs 65 minutes. The story, or better, the excuse for their burlesque humor is pretty weak this time. Wheeler and Woolsey play out of work vaudeville performers who are at the end of the line. Their only income stems from their exploitation of several large lions (don't ask). For some reason, they are invited to film an epic African movie on location, and this is officially where the story ends and the sexual double entendres enter. Dorothy Lee is missed, but Raquel Torres (from DUCK SOUP) is pretty good playing a female type of Tarzan. My favorite scenes are where Wheeler and Woolsey encounter a bear in Africa, and the very strange all-female tribe of "Africans." For Wheeler and Woolsey fans, this ranks very high on the must-see list. Also, I think this is their only film not produced by RKO, instead being done at Columbia Pictures.
    6didi-5

    hacked but funny Wheeler and Woolsey

    Originally filmed at some 90 minutes, Wheeler and Woolsey's only film at Columbia was chopped at the insistence of the censors and never re-released until its emergence on TCM some sixty-odd years later.

    Wilbur and Alexander are failed lion tamers, who have a small tribe of toothless tame lions they won in a raffle. These lions are of great interest to a film company who need a film about Africa. So, the hapless two and their animals go on safari, alongside the oversexed Mrs Martini.

    The jokes are fairly thick and fast in this 65 minute print, which includes a passionate female Tarzan, a huge group of Amazons, a foot-licking bear, a gorilla called Josephine, and a couple of musical numbers (one spoofing Minnie the Moocher).

    Although usual cutie Dorothy Lee is missing, Raquel Torres and Esther Muir do well as the love interests for the boys, and Wheeler and Woolsey themselves are on fairly good form.
    11930s_Time_Machine

    There's a reason Wheeler and Woolsey aren't known these days!

    Apparently the censors removed twenty minutes of this garbage before releasing it - a shame they didn't burn the rest of it as well.

    Americans of the thirties seemed quite sophisticated at times. They had some fantastic clever comedy and also some hilarious slapstick .....and inexplicably, Wheeler and Woolsey.

    I thought at first that maybe I found this inane and dull because I wasn't familiar with this duo but quickly realized that I was wrong - it was actually because this was inane and dull. Unfamiliarity was not the reason - I wasn't familiar at all with Eddie Cantor pictures until very recently either but when I saw was ROMAN SCANDALS I immediately thought was fabulous. OK, I subsequently discovered that his pictures are not all as good but I can promise that I will never, never, never want to know what any of the other Wheeler and Woolsey films are like.

    Some critics cite this trash as one of this duo's better (and funny) films. God knows what the worse ones are like! Some critics say that these two are similar to the Marx Brothers - such a comparison is ridiculous and to my mind, insulting to Messrs Marx. Some critics say that this film is a very racy and full of pre-code sauciness. These people are obviously deluded - this is as racy as watching a lettuce eating contest between two geriatric tortoises. OK, Raquel Torres dances a bit in an animal skin bikini but simply wearing a massive bikini is not what I'd call racy.....she's no Maureen O'Sullivan!
    6AlsExGal

    The 64 minute version is almost completely absent a plot

    The original film was 90 minutes long, but even in the precode era the Motion Picture Division of the Education Board of New York State found 26 minutes of the film unsuitable for audiences and thus these scenes and lines were cut. What's left is largely incoherent yet funny.

    As for the plot, Ultimate Pictures has sent the director Mrs. Johnson-Martini to Africa to make a film, but she returns empty-handed because she is afraid of animals. The company finds out about Wilbur (Bert Wheeler) and Alexander (Robert Woolsey) and their tame toothless lions and decide to hire them to go to Africa with Mrs. Johnson-Martini and make the movie using these tame animals.

    When they all get to Africa the plot about making a movie as well as the lions simply disappears and there are just a series of skits and dance numbers involving a tribe of women warriors who, at night, love any men they come in contact to death. It's daytime, but an eclipse occurs and Wilbur and Alexander are trapped with the women when they turn wildly amorous. Complications ensue.

    According to Wikipedia - "The character of "Mrs. Johnson Martini" is a play on the real-life celebrity of the era Osa Johnson, generally referred to publicly at that time as Mrs. Martin Johnson. In collaboration with her husband, Johnson was a well-known documentary filmmaker. At the time So This Is Africa was issued, Johnson and her husband had just returned from a two-year stint in Africa and had released the documentary film Congor."
    10rlymzv

    My favorite Wheeler & Woolsey movie. (And I have them all.)

    My favorite Wheeler & Woolsey movie. (And I have them all.)

    Is it in bad taste? Oh yes. Does it make any sense? Less than you'd think. Is it any good? YES!

    The best part of the movie is where Wheeler meets 'Tarzana' (Raquel Torres). You might think the perfect woman is a 25 year old Sophia Loren, Barbara Eden or Marjorie Weaver. Wait to you meet the sexy 'Tarzana' she's 23 years old and never been kissed. Upon discovering kissing it's all she wants to do, and is Wheeler happy to oblige.

    The duo then encounters a tribe of all female Amazons whose traditions include 'loving' men to death, but the men are not afraid. So This is Africa was a 90-minute film, cut down to 65 minutes by censors. Don't be so shocked, Disney and other studios continue to censor movies today. I would pay real money to see the original 90 minutes. So This is Africa is one of the most-heavily censored films of the pre-Code era. The National Board of Review memos include comments like "Nothing as salacious has ever come before the National Board in the eight years of my reviewing", "Absolutely nothing to recommend it", and "The Board would harm itself it were to pass such a picture."

    Shockingly, there's never been an official release of this movie on DVD by Columbia. The film is currently owned by Sony Pictures Entertainment. The film has been shown on Turner Classic Movies in the past, and can be found elsewhere.

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      As of this writing (2/4/21), this particular Wheeler and Woolsey comedy remains unavailable on DVD or Blu Ray.
    • Citazioni

      [Tarzana grabs Wilbur to kiss him]

      Tarzana: More!

      Wilbur: Hey!

      ECHO: Hey!

      Wilbur: Stop!

      ECHO: Stop!

      Wilbur: I'm hungry!

      ECHO: I'm hungry!

      [Tarzana drags Wilbur towards her cave]

      Wilbur: I don't want to go in there with you!

      ECHO: Don't be a chump!

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      Spoofs Strano interludio (1932)

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      • 22 aprile 1933 (Stati Uniti)
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