Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange

It seems that Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), in league with a beautiful but diabolical lady scientist (Lenore Aubert), needs a "simple, pliable" brain with which to reactivate Frankenstein's creature (Glenn Strange). The "ideal" brain belongs to the hapless Lou Costello, whom the lady doctor woos to gain his confidence and lure him to the operating ...

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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Dan Seymour

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team's vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou hire themselves out as travelling companions to archeologist Kurt Katch. Before long, Katch is murdered by a group of cultists, and a medallion, embossed with a map which leads to a sacred burial site, is accidentally ...

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Africa Screams (1949) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Hillary Brooke, Max Baer, Buddy Baer

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello temporarily leave their usual Universal stamping grounds to star in the Huntington Hartford production Africa Screams. Costello plays the colorfully inept Stanley Livingstone, a meek book salesman who poses as a big-game hunter at the behest of his shifty pal Buzz Johnson (Abbott). It's all part of a scheme to extract ...

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Buck Privates (1941) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Lee Bowman, Alan Curtis, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Jane Frazee, The Andrews Sisters

Filmed on a B-picture budget, Buck Privates was Universal's biggest box-office hit of 1941, firmly securing the movie popularity of the studio's hot new team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The story is fairly evenly divided between the antics of Bud and Lou-here cast as sidewalk salesmen Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown-and the romantic triangle ...

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Jack and the Beanstalk (1952) more movies like this

directed by Jean Yarbrough
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer, Dorothy Ford, Shaye Cogan

In 1952, the comedy team of Abbott and Costello entered into a joint agreement with producer Alex Gottlieb and Warner Brothers, whereby two color musical comedies would be produced: Bud Abbott would serve as producer--owner of one of the films, while Lou Costello would do same for the other. Costello's contribution to this agreement was Jack and ...

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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard, Robert Paige, Horace McMahon

They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello inadvertently launch a rocket ship with themselves aboard. After a wild ride around New York City (the Statue of Liberty ducks when the rocket heads her way), Bud and Lou land in the outskirts of New ...

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Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Lenore Aubert, Gar Moore

This Abbott & Costello vehicle was originally planned as a Bob Hope comedy titled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly evenly divided between Bud Abbott, as hotel house detective Casey Edwards, and Lou Costello, as bumbling bellhop Lou Costello. When a much-hated criminal attorney (Nicholas Joy) is murdered at a resort hotel, there's no ...

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Hold That Ghost (1941) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Joan Davis, Richard Carlson, Evelyn Ankers, Mischa Auer

Hold That Ghost was the second of Abbott and Costello's starring films, but was held back from release in favor of their third picture, the more "topical" In the Navy. In Ghost, Bud and Lou play a couple of service-station owners who happen to be hanging around when gangster Moose Mattson (William B. Davidson) is killed. According to the terms of ...

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Pardon My Sarong (1942) more movies like this

directed by Erle C. Kenton
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill, Robert Paige

One of the most often revived of Abbott & Costello's early-1940s films, Pardon My Sarong casts Bud and Lou as Chicago bus drivers Algy Shaw and Wellington Pflug. At the behest of millionaire playboy Tommy Layton (Robert Paige), Algy and Wellington hijack their own bus and speed off to California so that Tommy won't be late for an important ...

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One Night in the Tropics (1940) more movies like this

directed by Edward Sutherland
featuring Allan Jones, Bud Abbott, Nancy Kelly, Lou Costello, Robert Cummings

The third film version of Earl Derr Biggers' novel Love Insurance, One Night in the Tropics stars Allan Jones as a hotshot insurance salesman who sells a policy to his best pal Robert Cummings. Cummings will earn $1 million if he fails to marry his fiance Nancy Kelly. Half of the policy is underwritten by tough gambling-house owner William Frawley ...

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The Naughty Nineties (1945) more movies like this

directed by Jean Yarbrough
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson, Henry Travers

Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place aboard a 19th century showboat, owned by kindly Captain Sam (Henry Travers). Bud Abbott plays the showboat's leading man Dexter Broadhurst, while Lou Costello is handyman Sebastian Dinwiddie. A group of slick gamblers (Alan ...

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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild, Arthur Franz, Adele Jergens

The best of Universal-International's followups to Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man casts Bud and Lou as mail-order private eyes. The boys champion the cause of boxer Arthur Franz, who has been framed for murder. Utilizing the formula created by Claude Rains in the original Invisible Man (1933), Franz ...

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Mexican Hayride (1948) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Grey, Luba Malina, John Hubbard

Cole Porter's Broadway musical Mexican Hayride was optioned by Universal in the mid-1940s, then remained in "development hell" until 1948. By the time the property made it to the screen, the entire Porter score had been removed, and the play's original star Bobby Clark was replaced by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The story takes place South of the ...

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The Abbott & Costello Show [TV Series] (1952) more movies like this

directed by Jean Yarbrough
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

The Abbott & Costello Show marked the last major commercial success for the comic team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The duo, who had started out in burlesque in the 1930's (and each had long experience in entertainment and performing before they met), had been a veritable fixure on radio since 1938, when they'd appeared on The Kate Smith Hour, ...

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Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Craig Stevens, Helen Westcott

This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters. In this case, Slim (Bud Abbott) and Tubby (Lou Costello) play American detectives who cross wits with Dr. Henry Jekyll (Boris Karloff) in Edwardian-era London when they visit to compare techniques with their British ...

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The Noose Hangs High (1948) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Cathy Downs, Joseph Calleia, Leon Errol

For their first independently-produced vehicle, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello chose to appear in a remake of the 1939 Universal programmer For Love or Money. Bud and Lou are cast as Ted and Tommy, two bumbling window washers hired by gangster Mike Craig (Joseph Calleila) to collect a $50,000 gambling debt. The boys manage to pick up the money, only ...

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Who Done It? (1942) more movies like this

directed by Erle C. Kenton
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patric Knowles, William Gargan, Louise Allbritton

With only a minimal romantic subplot and no music whatsoever, Who Done It? is pure, undiluted Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, and a good mystery on its own to boot. Bud and Lou star as Chick Larkin and Mervyn Milgrim, a pair of soda jerks who aspire to become radio detective-show writers (their latest epic is "The Midget Gets the Chair-or, Small Fry" ...

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Keep 'em Flying (1941) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye, Carol Bruce, Dick Foran, William Gargan

Having joined the army in Buck Privates and the navy in In the Navy, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello signed up with Air Force in Keep 'Em Flying. Abbott and Costello play Blackie and Heathcliff, carnival workers who are fired from their jobs along with their pal, reckless stunt pilot Jinx Roberts (Dick Foran). When Jinx joins the Army Air Corps-the ...

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Dance with Me, Henry (1956) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Rusty Hamer, Mary Wickes

Dance With Me, Henry was the screen swan song for the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Most of the action takes place in Kiddieland, an amusement park owned by soft-hearted Lou Henry (Costello). An inveterate collector of strays, Lou has adopted orphaned kids Shelley (Gigi Perreau) and Duffer (Rusty Hamer), and has also provided a safe ...

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In the Navy (1941) more movies like this

directed by Arthur Lubin
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Powell, Claire Dodd, The Andrews Sisters

The third of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's starring films, In the Navy was released second; Universal had just made a bundle off Abbott and Costello's Buck Privates, and the studio wanted another "service" comedy put into circulation in a hurry. Abbott and Costello share over-the-title billing with Dick Powell, who plays a popular radio singer. ...

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The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Miller
featuring Lou Costello, Dorothy Provine, Gale Gordon, Jimmy Conlin, Charles Lane

Lou Costello made his only film appearance without Bud Abbott in 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock. Lou plays a bumbling junk dealer who fancies himself a great inventor. One of his creations transforms his girlfriend Dorothy Provine into a towering giant! The subsequent shenanigans involve Lou, the humongous Ms. Provine, her bombastic uncle Gale Gordon ...

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Here Come the Co-Eds (1945) more movies like this

directed by Jean Yarbrough
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Peggy Ryan, Martha O'Driscoll, June Vincent, Lon Chaney, Jr.

At 88 minutes, Here Come the Co-Eds is one of the longest of Abbott & Costello's Universal starring vehicles, and though not necessarily the best, it manages to sustain a high comic content throughout. The scene is a financially strapped girl's college, where professional dancer Molly (Martha O'Driscoll) lands a scholarship. Molly's manager ...

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Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950) more movies like this

directed by Charles Lamont
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patricia Medina, Walter Slezak, Douglas Dumbrille

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his home in Arabia. While scouring the desert in search of Davis, Bud and Lou inadvertently purchase slave girl Patricia Medina, and with equal inadvertence join the Foreign Legion. In their own bumbling, inept fashion, our heroes ...

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Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945) more movies like this

directed by S. Sylvan Simon
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Frances Rafferty, Robert Stanton, Jean Porter

The last of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's three MGM features, Abbott & Costello in Hollywood is a loose remake of Buster Keaton's Free and Easy. Bud and Lou play a pair of Tinseltown barbers who dream of becoming high-priced showbiz agents. Their first clients are Frances Rafferty and Robert Stanton, whose careers may be over before they begin ...

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Lost in Alaska (1952) more movies like this

directed by Jean Yarbrough
featuring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mitzi Green, Tom Ewell, Bruce Cabot

One reviewer of Abbott & Costello's Lost in Alaska summed up the proceeding in three pithy words: "Lost is right." While not A&C's worst film, it's several miles removed from their best. Cast as firemen in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Bud and Lou rescue would-be suicide Tom Ewell. It turns out that Ewell is mooning over his former girl ...

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