Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?)

Ettore Scola directed this 1968 Italian adventure comedy, released under the Italian title Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?, and wrote it together with Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli, the duo known as Age & Scarpelli. It was shot in Angola, and Brazil knew it as Perdidos na África and Portugal as Um Italiano em Angola.

The title itself sums up the premise: a group of heroes sets out after a friend who has vanished mysteriously in Africa. They are played by Alberto Sordi and Bernard Blier, with Nino Manfredi, Erika Blanc, Giuliana Lojodice and Franca Bettoia also in the cast. The story is loosely based on the books by Salgari, Verne and Conrad that Scola read as a child and on Romano Scarpa's 1957 Disney comic Topolino e il Pippotarzan.

Production started in 1965 under the working title Mister Sabatini, suppongo, and the finished film set off a trend in Italian cinema for very long titles. It was the sixth highest-grossing release of the 1968-69 Italian season. In France it could only be shown in 1978: the French distributor tried to censor its anti-colonial remarks, Blier, who dubbed himself for the French version, noticed and told Scola, who had the film blocked there.