Posts Tagged ‘abbott-and-costello’

Little Giant (1946)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Joyce, Brenda | deWit, Jacqueline | Cleveland, George | Verdugo, Elena | Gordon, Mary | Watkin, Pierre | MacBride, Donald | Kilian, Victor | Dumont, Margaret | Chandler, George | Fields, Sid | Gray, Beatrice
Directors: Seiter, William A.
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Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he’s a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like “The Time of Their Lives,” in that Abbott and Costello don’t have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hit The Ice (1943)

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Simms, Ginny | Knowles, Patric | Knox, Elyse | Sawyer, Joe | Lawrence, Marc | Leonard, Sheldon | Johnny Long and His Orchestra | Barber, Bobby | Bell, Hank | Boteler, Wade | Christy, Ken | Crehan, Joseph | Dunn, Eddie
Directors: Kenton, Erle C.
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Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Himself) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Windsor, Marie | Ansara, Michael | Seymour, Dan | Deacon, Richard | Katch, Kurt | Karlan, Richard | Welles, Mel | Khoury, George | Parker, Eddie | Chandra Kaly and His Dancers | King, Peggy | Alton, Kenneth | Arvan, Jan
Directors: Lamont, Charles
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In Egypt Peter and Freddie find the archaeologist Dr. Zoomer murdered before they can return to America. A medallion leads them to a crypt where a revived mummy provides the terror.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Karloff, Boris | Aubert, Lénore | Moore, Gar | Martell, Donna | Mowbray, Alan | Flavin, James | Winters, Roland | Joy, Nicholas | Conrad, Mikel | Farley, Morgan | Horne, Victoria | Helton, Percy | Du Brey, Claire
Directors: Barton, Charles
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Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn’t the Swami).

Abbott and Costello in Who Done It? (1942)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Knowles, Patric | Gargan, William | Allbritton, Louise | Gomez, Thomas | Bendix, William | Porter, Don | Cowan, Jerome | Wickes, Mary | Stössel, Ludwig | Abbott, Norman | Barber, Bobby | Bruce, Eddie | Dubov, Paul
Directors: Kenton, Erle C.
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Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Blanchard, Mari | Paige, Robert | McMahon, Horace | Hyer, Martha | Kruschen, Jack | Kirk, Joe | Willes, Jean | Ekberg, Anita | Flavin, James | Loughery, Jackie | Hampton, Ruth | Jackson, Valerie | Hoy, Renate
Directors: Lamont, Charles
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Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Guild, Nancy | Franz, Arthur | Jergens, Adele | Leonard, Sheldon | Frawley, William | Muir, Gavin | Balter, Sam | Daheim, John | Maxey, Paul | Appler, Walter F. | Banks, Howard | Barber, Bobby | Bartell, Richard
Directors: Lamont, Charles
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Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy’s invisible help.

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Abbott, Bud | Costello, Lou | Chaney Jr., Lon | Lugosi, Bela | Strange, Glenn | Aubert, Lénore | Randolph, Jane | Ferguson, Frank | Bradstreet, Charles | Barber, Bobby | Barton, George | Brown, Harry | Kirk, Joe | Negley, Howard | Price, Vincent
Directors: Barton, Charles
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The world of freight handlers Wilbur Grey and Chick Young is turned upside down when the remains of Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula arrive from Europe to be used in a house of horrors. Dracula awakens and escapes with the weakened monster, who he plans to re-energize with a new brain. Larry Talbot (the Wolfman) arrives from London in an attempt to thwart Dracula. Dracula’s reluctant aide is the beautiful Dr. Sandra Mornay. Her reluctance is dispatched by Dracula’s bite. Dracula and Sandra abduct Wilbur for his brain and recharge the monster in preparation for the operation. Chick and Talbot attempt to find and free Wilbur, but when the full moon rises all hell breaks loose with the Wolfman, Dracula, and Frankenstein all running rampant.