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So This Is Africa

1933, Movie, NR, 68 mins

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Of all the films made by 1930s comedy team Wheeler and Woolsey, the once-notorious SO THIS IS AFRICA has always been their most difficult to see, thanks to an abundance of what was once called "blue" material. Unfortunately, while the film amusingly spoofs Tarzan and other Hollywood jungle pictures, it's impossible to judge just how raunchy it originally was, since it only exists now in a severely edited and censored form. Failed vaudevillians Alexander (Robert Woolsey) and... read more leave a comment
Year: 1933
Rated NR

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Cast
Robert Woolsey: Alexander
Bert Wheeler: Wilbur
Raquel Torres: Leader of Amazon Women
Esther Muir: Mrs. Johnson-Martini
Berton Churchill: President
Henry Armetta: Street Cleaner

 

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