So This Is Africa 1933 Screenplay by Norman Krasna and direction by Edward F Cline. It's the boys only comedy for Columbia Pictures and it's a goofy bit of business.
Robert Wheeler and Bert Woolsey play vaudevillians with a lion act. They're broke, the lions are hungry and the hotel is ready to toss them out for not paying their bill. Across town Ultimate Pictures is having a big meeting about their latest blunder. The big man in charge has hired Mrs Johnson Martini, a naturalist with African expertise, to film an animal picture in Africa. They've just learned she's afraid of animals and the studio is in a uproar. I suspect that Mrs Johnson Martini refers to the travelers and film makers, Osa and Martin Johnson.
The studio hits upon the idea of getting W&W's tame lions. They'll send them to Africa with Mrs Martini and make their film. It's a bonkers idea that seems to have been forgotten once the group gets to Africa. Mrs Martini seems set on wooing Robert. Bert gets picked up while sleepwalking. Literally, Tarzana picks him up in his night shirt and swings him through the trees to her tree house.
Wheeler and Woolsey are reunited just as the Amazon's arrive. There's a whole tribe of them and they're set on romance. Luckily for our guys a whole tribe of Tarzan lookalikes show up for the annual grab a bride ritual. The movie ends with the W&W in the village, married with children.
It's a pretty wacky film with some good jokes and some bad. It's about average for their films, despite the dumb studio plot line. It's a wonder they're still in business with that level of intelligence. It's not available on DVD for some reason but you can find it on YouTube in the link above.
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