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."
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."