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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Toby Tyler (1959) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Kevin Corcoran, Henry Calvin, Gene Sheldon, Bob Sweeney, Richard Eastham

Child star Kevin "Moochie" Cocoran shares his top billing with a chimp, Mr. Stubbs, in this story about a forlorn lad who runs away from his foster parents believing he is unloved. Little Toby and his pet chimp leave home and end up at the circus as an oily yet comic Harry Tupper (Bob Sweeney), in charge of a concessions stand, takes them under ...

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The Shaggy Dog (1959) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Tim Considine

This is a routine Disney comedy-fantasy about a boy who turns into a large sheep dog at the most inopportune moments. That is assuming there would be opportune moments. Young Wilby Daniels (Tommy Kirk) finds a magic ring that used to belong to the Borgia family. When he pronounces an inscription on the ring, he is suddenly able to transform ...

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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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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, James Best, Lori Nelson, Esther Dale

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away nothing to reveal that Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride once more assume the title roles. The plot is motivated by Ma's desire to send daughter Rosie (Lori Nelson) to college. To that end, she intends to win a big cash prize at ...

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The Fighting Westerner (1935) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Randolph Scott, Charles "Chic" Sale, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Kathleen Burke, George F. Marion

Randolph Scott stars in this adequate Zane Grey adaptation. Lawman Larry Sutton (Scott) is assigned to solve a series of murders occurring at a radium mine. Among the suspects is mine owner Mrs. Borg, played by legendary Broadway star Leslie Carter in a rare film appearance. The key to the mystery would seem to be a sinister Chinese gent named ...

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Hell Town (1937) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, Johnny Mack Brown, John Patterson, Monte Blue

Paramount borrowed John Wayne from Republic Pictures for the studio's second screen version of Zane Grey's Born to the West, which was also the Western's original release title. A couple of drifters, Dare Rudd (Wayne) and Dinkie Hooley (Sid Saylor), arrive in a Wyoming town hoping for a handout from Dare's rancher cousin, Tom Fillmore (Johnny Mack ...

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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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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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Wagon Wheels (1934) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick, Billy Lee, Leila Bennett, Jan Duggan

Adapted from a Zane Grey story, Wagon Wheels is a remake of the 1931 Gary Cooper starrer Fighting Caravans. Randolph Scott assumes Cooper's role, playing a trail guide named Clint Belmet. The plot follows the progress of a typical wagon train journey from Missouri to Oregon, with the usual quote of Indian attacks and outlaw treachery. Murdock ...

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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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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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Desert Gold (1936) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton, James Hogan
featuring Larry "Buster" Crabbe, Robert Cummings, Marsha Hunt, Tom Keene

Generous stock footage from Paramount's silent Zane Grey series enhances the production values of the entertaining "pocket" western Desert Gold. Though most of the storyline is taken up the romance between young pioneers Dick Gale (Tom Keene) and Jane Belding (Marsha Hunt), the most compelling character is young Indian chief Maya, played by Buster ...

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The Time of Their Lives (1946) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes, Gale Sondergaard, John Shelton

While perhaps not Abbott & Costello's best film, The Time of Their Lives is certainly their most unusual. Lou Costello plays a Revolutionary War-era tinker, whose prized possession is a letter from George Washington, commending Costello as a loyal patriot. Costello's lady love is Anne Gillis, maidservant to aristocratic Jess Barker. Costello's ...

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Buck Privates Come Home (1947) more movies like this

directed by Charles Barton
featuring Bud Abbott, George Beban, Jr., Lou Costello, Don Beddoe, Nat Pendleton, Lennie Bremen, Tom Brown, Joan Fulton

After serving with a notable lack of distinction in WW2, Corporal Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) and Private Herbie Brown (Lou Costello) return to the US. Unbeknownst to their sourpussed sergeant Collins (Nat Pendleton), Slicker and Herbie have smuggled cute little war orphan Evie (Beverly Simmons) past the immigration authorities. In their efforts to ...

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