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Lou Costello Movies
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Gigi Perreau,
Rusty Hamer,
Mary Wickes,
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This film has the reputation of being the team's worst, and it may well
be (it's a toss-up between this one and "A&C Go to Mars"), but even if
it isn't the worst movie they ever made, it's definitely the saddest.
Both Bud and Lou were old and ill, and their timing, which was at one
time absolutely awe-inspiring, is pretty much gone. They show their
age, especially Costello, and...
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Genres:
Comedy
Adventure
Horror
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Marie Windsor,
Michael Ansara,
Dan Seymour,
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Considering how late in their career this came, and how lame some of its
predecessors were, this one is not too bad. And it's a joy to see some of
the wordplay they were famous for make a welcome return amidst the
routine
slapstick. Sure, "Take your pick" "The shovel is my pick" is not on the
same
level as "Who's On First?", but it's still amusing enough, and it's fun
t...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Fred Clark,
Lynn Bari,
Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom,
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Well, this is far from classic A&C. Basicly, it's a silly romp with a lot
of
dumb skits. That being said, I absolutely love this movie. It is a
personal
sentimental favorite. The use of modern Universal stuntmen to act as the
Keystone Cops, and the appearance of Mack Sennett himself make this a
movie
to treasure. Don't worry about plot. Don't think about how out of plac...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Fred Clark,
Lynn Bari,
Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom,
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Well, this is far from classic A&C. Basicly, it's a silly romp with a lot
of
dumb skits. That being said, I absolutely love this movie. It is a
personal
sentimental favorite. The use of modern Universal stuntmen to act as the
Keystone Cops, and the appearance of Mack Sennett himself make this a
movie
to treasure. Don't worry about plot. Don't think about how out of plac...
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Genres:
Comedy
Sci-Fi
Fantasy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Mari Blanchard,
Robert Paige,
Horace McMahon,
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Fans of rocket-age science fiction films will find interest in this wacky
spoof. The early 1950's saw the start of the atomic age rocket ship film
genre with ROCKET X-M and DESTINATION MOON in 1950 and WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
and FLIGHT TO MARS in 1951. These movies were all hits and the trend lasted
through the sixties with MAROONED and JOURNEY TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE SUN in
1969...
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Genres:
Comedy
Horror
Mystery
Sci-Fi
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Boris Karloff,
Craig Stevens,
Helen Westcott,
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Whenever I see this I see it through Rose-tinted Spectacles: because I
first saw it as a kid nostalgia kicks in and all faults are forgiven.
There's quite a few of A&C's in that list, The Lost World (1960)
springs to my mind as a different another. It certainly helps because
in places this is laughably bad, but of course those bits were likely
thrown in just for the kid...
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Genres:
Comedy
Fantasy
Musical
Family
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Buddy Baer,
Shaye Cogan,
James Alexander,
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I turn to this movie when I'm feeling down. My 5-year old niece
(with no prompting from me) prefers it to any Disney you care to name. It's
one of those movies that's so bad it's brilliant. And why Jack's Mother's
line, uttered in sheer frustration, "Plant the Beans, Jack!" has not become
a revered movie catchphrase I'll never know. I always shout "Plant the
Beans, J...
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Genres:
Comedy
Adventure
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Mitzi Green,
Tom Ewell,
Bruce Cabot,
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Abbott and Costello, who are firemen in the 1890s save life of Alaskan
suicidal
millionaire 'nugget' Joe from drowning himself.( An idea from Chaplin's
City
lights
perhaps?). His girl has told him she wants out. (How he ended up in San
Fransisco
from Alaska though is a mystery). They take him back to their place for
him
to stay
the night. The morning aft...
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Genres:
Comedy
Fantasy
Musical
Family
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Buddy Baer,
Shaye Cogan,
James Alexander,
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I turn to this movie when I'm feeling down. My 5-year old niece
(with no prompting from me) prefers it to any Disney you care to name. It's
one of those movies that's so bad it's brilliant. And why Jack's Mother's
line, uttered in sheer frustration, "Plant the Beans, Jack!" has not become
a revered movie catchphrase I'll never know. I always shout "Plant the
Beans, J...
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Genres:
Comedy
Sci-Fi
Sport
Horror
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Nancy Guild,
Arthur Franz,
Adele Jergens,
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I only watched this once, but that's my loss. I should see this again.
Although not a big fan of these guys, I thought this was their funniest
film, along with Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Although the
latter is considered their best and most popular movie, my vote just
might go to this one.This film was simply a lot of laughs from start to finish and the
special-eff...
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Genres:
Comedy
Musical
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Dorothy Shay,
Kirby Grant,
Joe Sawyer,
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There is too little of prime Abbott & Costello in this but there is
some crackling dialog when they arrive in Kentucky and Abbott says to
Costello "Smell that Kentucky Bluegrass.." Costellos retort to this is
by far the best dialog in the film.The section with Margaret Hamilton is corny but well done. While not
their best work, these highlights make it worth viewing. It does not
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Genres:
Adventure
Comedy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Patricia Medina,
Walter Slezak,
Douglass Dumbrille,
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Bud and Lou had previously visited the North African desert in Lost in
a Harem, one of the loan out films they did for MGM in the middle 40s.
I guess their home studio Universal wanted to get in the action also,
so they got a second engagement in the Sahara.The boys are wrestling managers in search of their wrestler Abdullah
who's taken a powder and left them holding the bag to...
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Genres:
Comedy
Adventure
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Clyde Beatty,
Frank Buck,
Max Baer,
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This is a generally enjoyable Abbott and Costello comedy, with a light
and often silly feel that nevertheless works well enough. Hillary
Brooke adds an elegant presence as their antagonist, and the story
makes relatively good use of its comic possibilities.The plot has the kind of deliberately implausible setup that Bud and
Lou usually handled well, as their two characters become p...
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Genres:
Comedy
Mystery
Thriller
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Boris Karloff,
Lenore Aubert,
Gar Moore,
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We have here the excellent slapstick performances of straight man
Bud
Abbott and comic genius Lou Costello,combined with the always
menacing
Boris Karloff,though here he is much more lighthearted of
course.Freddy
Phillips(Costello)is suspected of murder.Of course we all know he
didn't
do it,and the hilarious journey to the real killer begins from
there.
Whil...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Joseph Calleia,
Leon Errol,
Cathy Downs,
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If you're a fan of Abbott and Costello routines, then "The Noose Hangs
High"
is for you. Numerous routines are packed into this film, including
"Dress/Undress," "Someplace Else," "Fodder/Mudder," etc. The boys display
these routines with flair and show how much they enjoy
them.The plot involves A&C as window washers mistaken as messengers by a bookie
who must make good a ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Romance
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Virginia Grey,
Luba Malina,
John Hubbard,
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Fresh from the hit "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein," the comedy duo
set out on "Mexican Hayride." Costello plays Joe Bascom, who is on the
trail of Harry Lambert (Bud Abbott). Lambert coerced Bascom into
swindling
friends in Iowa, and Bascom has followed him into Mexico to force him to
pay
up. Through a series of misunderstandings, Bascom becomes "Amigo
Americ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Horror
Sci-Fi
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Lon Chaney Jr.,
Bela Lugosi,
Glenn Strange,
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There are two schools of thought regarding 'Abbott & Costello Meet
Frankenstein'. The first holds that the movie represents the nadir of
the Universal Monsters cycle, with three once-great monsters reduced to
playing second-fiddle to a couple of Laurel and Hardy wannabes. The
alternative view, which I hold, is that this movie is a classic
comedy-horror, perhaps the best example...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Joseph Calleia,
Leon Errol,
Cathy Downs,
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If you're a fan of Abbott and Costello routines, then "The Noose Hangs
High"
is for you. Numerous routines are packed into this film, including
"Dress/Undress," "Someplace Else," "Fodder/Mudder," etc. The boys display
these routines with flair and show how much they enjoy
them.The plot involves A&C as window washers mistaken as messengers by a bookie
who must make good a ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Romance
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Virginia Grey,
Luba Malina,
John Hubbard,
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Fresh from the hit "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein," the comedy duo
set out on "Mexican Hayride." Costello plays Joe Bascom, who is on the
trail of Harry Lambert (Bud Abbott). Lambert coerced Bascom into
swindling
friends in Iowa, and Bascom has followed him into Mexico to force him to
pay
up. Through a series of misunderstandings, Bascom becomes "Amigo
Americ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Horror
Sci-Fi
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Lon Chaney Jr.,
Bela Lugosi,
Glenn Strange,
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There are two schools of thought regarding 'Abbott & Costello Meet
Frankenstein'. The first holds that the movie represents the nadir of
the Universal Monsters cycle, with three once-great monsters reduced to
playing second-fiddle to a couple of Laurel and Hardy wannabes. The
alternative view, which I hold, is that this movie is a classic
comedy-horror, perhaps the best example...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Tom Brown,
Joan Shawlee,
Nat Pendleton,
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We managed to win World War II in the European theater even with the
presence of Bud and Lou in the American Army. The boys who enlisted in
the army to get away from the cops in Buck Privates and found their
nemesis patrolman, Nat Pendleton, as their sergeant are now returning
veterans. Only Costello managed to smuggle in little Beverly Simmons, a
French war orphan, in his duff...
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Genres:
Comedy
Western
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Marjorie Main,
Audrey Young,
George Cleveland,
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Two traveling salesmen (guess who) arrive in the lawless frontier town
of Wagon Gap where the outlaw boss Gordon Jones and citizen's committee
head William Ching are in a power struggle. Poor inept Costello winds
up getting framed for a murder and he and Abbott are both about to be
hung when Ching discovers a law in Montana Territory about a man who
causes the death of anot...
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Genres:
Comedy
Fantasy
Romance
Thriller
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Marjorie Reynolds,
Binnie Barnes,
John Shelton,
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Growing up in the New York area as a kid, channel 11 (WPIX) used to show the
Abbott and Costello movies every Sunday at 11:30 AM. I got to see virtually
all of them. Some were OK (Buck Privates) while others were barely
watchable (the later ones that start with "Abbott & Costello Meet [INSERT
HORROR CHARACTER NAME]).BUT...I have always noticed that "The Time of Their Lives" is de...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Brenda Joyce,
Jacqueline deWit,
George Cleveland,
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Included in the second of Universal's multi-disc DVD sets of Abbott
and
Costello, LITTLE GIANT is a charming film, full of pathos, and NOT
a
standard A&C comedy. First, Abbott and Costello are not a team
here.
It's basically Costello's film, with Abbott in a dual role as both
the
film's antagonist and the antagonist's cousin, who befriends
Costello.
Second, ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Musical
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Peggy Ryan,
Martha O'Driscoll,
June Vincent,
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With "Here Come The Co-eds," Abbott & Costello have their funniest film
since 1942's "Who Done It." The duo seems more energetic in their
performance, and the storyline (two ballroom dancers who find themselves
as
caretakers at an all-girls college) suits them well.The "Jonah" routine shines here, and the comic timing the duo display is
exquisite. Costello shows his basketbal...
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Genres:
Comedy
Crime
Romance
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Alan Curtis,
Rita Johnson,
Henry Travers,
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What can I say about this movie? I introduced it to my cousin when we
were both a bit younger and we were on vacation together. We were both
in an Abbott and Costello craze at the time and, over the course of the
trip, we probably watched that movie upwards of thirty times. It was
great! Easily my favorite of their many films. The film consists of
hilarious routine after hilari...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Marion Hutton,
Kirby Grant,
Margaret Irving,
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Another nice little film from Bud & Lou, even if rushed and bodged
together with Never Give A Sucker An Even Break at the end it's still a
pleasant 70 minutes.Two inept plumbers keeping their heads above water by working for both
the expensive Ajax and cheap Atlas plumbing companies get called to
repair a leak in swanky society house with disastrous results but
afterwards f...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Ginny Simms,
Patric Knowles,
Elyse Knox,
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I've always liked this Abbott & Costello outing, probably ranking it
just in their top ten - but I really don't know why! The story is so
contrived and abounding with plot leaps and non-sequiteurs I wonder
what everyone was thinking about in the making and release of this. I
think it must be the fun and inconsequential atmosphere created so
effortlessly by Universal studios dur...
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Genres:
Comedy
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Ginny Simms,
Patric Knowles,
Elyse Knox,
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I've always liked this Abbott & Costello outing, probably ranking it
just in their top ten - but I really don't know why! The story is so
contrived and abounding with plot leaps and non-sequiteurs I wonder
what everyone was thinking about in the making and release of this. I
think it must be the fun and inconsequential atmosphere created so
effortlessly by Universal studios dur...
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Genres:
Comedy
Western
Musical
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Dick Foran,
Anne Gwynne,
Johnny Mack Brown,
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Ride 'Em Cowboy has always been my favourite Abbott & Costello film,
since the first time I saw it at 10 years old. Other films of theirs
had some of the classic routines, maybe better stories too, but this
one has some great routines, great atmosphere and a lot of great songs
too. And just as importantly Anne Gwynne never looked lovelier ... even
when she was ogling Dick ...
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Genres:
Comedy
Mystery
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Patric Knowles,
William Gargan,
Louise Allbritton,
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This has always been one of my favourite Abbott & Costello's, it's a
short, frantic murder mystery with plenty of slapstick routines to keep
us fans happy. I think the pace of it all and the average volume of
Lou's voice probably puts some people off, but hey they can't really be
fans then, can they?A murder is committed in full view in a radio studio, Bud and Lou are
on the ca...
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Genres:
Comedy
Mystery
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Patric Knowles,
William Gargan,
Louise Allbritton,
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This has always been one of my favourite Abbott & Costello's, it's a
short, frantic murder mystery with plenty of slapstick routines to keep
us fans happy. I think the pace of it all and the average volume of
Lou's voice probably puts some people off, but hey they can't really be
fans then, can they?A murder is committed in full view in a radio studio, Bud and Lou are
on the ca...
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Genres:
Comedy
Musical
Adventure
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Virginia Bruce,
Robert Paige,
Lionel Atwill,
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I've seen Pardon My Sarong over 10 times now and have to consider it
one of Bud & Lou's best films, up there with Ride 'em cowboy, Meets
Frankenstein, Hold that ghost etc. PMS is more distinctly episodic than
most of their others and would present a Plot Coherency Issue with
impatient first-comers, but if got through a sparkling atmospheric
musical comedy lies withi...
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Genres:
Comedy
Mystery
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Patric Knowles,
William Gargan,
Louise Allbritton,
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This has always been one of my favourite Abbott & Costello's, it's a
short, frantic murder mystery with plenty of slapstick routines to keep
us fans happy. I think the pace of it all and the average volume of
Lou's voice probably puts some people off, but hey they can't really be
fans then, can they?A murder is committed in full view in a radio studio, Bud and Lou are
on the ca...
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Genres:
Comedy
Musical
Romance
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Dick Powell,
Claire Dodd,
The Andrews Sisters,
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I saw this first when young so maybe my rose-tinted specs are kicking
in, but I still really like this film. Just as Britain's box office no.
1 George Formby was enlisted by the movie industry to help the War
effort with a string of "service comedies" so were Abbott & Costello,
America's no. 1 cinema attraction at the time. And same as Formby,
keeping the same formula b...
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Genres:
Adventure
Comedy
Horror
Music
Mystery
Thriller
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Richard Carlson,
Joan Davis,
Mischa Auer,
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This combination of haunted house scares and A&C slapstick works
terrifically, for several reasons--the supporting cast is first-rate,
and Joan Davis proved to be the best comic foil Costello ever had,
their scenes together sparkle and their chemistry is undeniable; the
boys' timing, always a marvel, has seldom been better; and, as in their
best film, "A&C Meet Frankenstein," t...
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Genres:
Comedy
Musical
Starring:
Lee Bowman,
Alan Curtis,
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
The Andrews Sisters,
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Abbott and Costello's second feature, "Buck Privates," opened in January
1941. Peacetime conscription was in effect, voted by Congress in late 1940,
and only planned to last for one year. Europe was at war, China was being
raped (literally) by the Japanese. Americans were torn about the prospect
of war-Lindbergh, a hero and a Nazi admirer, together with his America First
mov...
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Genres:
Comedy
Musical
War
Starring:
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Martha Raye,
Carol Bruce,
William Gargan,
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Not their best, but by far not their weakest, the film provides the
viewers with the duo in the Army Air Corps, or at least a training
facility.While there has been some comment on the wood and fabric airplanes in
the film, filmed shortly before the U.S. got involved in World War II,
many training facilities taught their students initially on such
aircraft, just so they could l...
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Genres:
Comedy
Musical
Starring:
Allan Jones,
Nancy Kelly,
Bud Abbott,
Lou Costello,
Robert Cummings,
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ONE NIGHT IN THE TROPICS (Universal, 1940), directed by A. Edward
Sutherland, which began production under the title of "Caribbean
Holiday," is a lively, but at times silly musical comedy starring Allan
Jones as Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman who comes up with the
idea of selling his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings) a love insurance
policy, because if his fianc...
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