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When their captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers, stage show star Abbott and his bumbling sidekick Costello must put things right. Director Jean Yarbrough Stars Bud Abbott Lou Costello Alan Curtis
- 10 Abbott and Costello Meet The Invisible Man
- 9 Buck Privates Come Home
- 8 Pardon My Sarong
- 7 Abbott and Costello Meet The Killer, Boris Karloff
- 6 Buck Privates
- 5 The Naughty Nineties
- 4 Who Done It?
- 3 Hold That Ghost
- BBOTT and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) - 7.4
- 1 The Time of Their Lives
In Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, a boxer named Tommy Nelson is accused of murder, so he takes an invisibility formula instead to evade the police. Luckily, the two private eyes investigating the crime have a plan to trap the real killer, but unluckily, they are the bumbling Bud and Lou. Many of Abbott and Costello's most famous ...
While the best war movies are usually dramatic epics that show the horrors of conflict, Abbott and Costello's Buck Privates Come Home offered a laugh for a war-weary nation. In the film, a pair of recently discharged soldiers must find a home for a war orphan. A sequel to their earlier film, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello starred alongside Nat ...
The best Abbott and Costello movies usually featured a plot involving comedy of errors, and Pardon My Sarong had farce in droves. Two hapless bus drivers from Chicago find themselves on a tropical island after a warrant is issued for their arrest, and once there they run across angry natives and conniving crooks. Though the premise was similar to o...
Invoking the name of a horror icon, Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff packed in three of the biggest stars in cinema at the time. Lou Costello leads as a bellhop who is framed for murder by Swami Talpur (Boris Karloff) and several other crooks staying at his hotel. The famous horror star was teamed with the comedy duo in a way not ...
In Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello star as two crooks who opt to accept military service instead of serving jail time. After Abbott and Costello's supporting roles in One Night in the Tropics, Buck Privates gave them a chance to be the stars. It established Abbott and Costello's film formula, including Costello's character being the emotional co...
While most Abbott and Costello movies were a platform for the duo to trot out their classic vaudeville bits, The Naughty Ninetieswas the most obvious homage to their stage origins. After a kindly showboat captain is swindled out of his ship, two stage performers aim to help him get it back. The duo performs a number of classic burlesque acts, inclu...
No genre was safe from the comedic spoofing of Abbott and Costello, and Who Done It? saw them take aim at the ever-popular murder mystery. Two aspiring radio mystery writers find themselves at the heart of a real-life investigation when a network president turns up dead. Like many of their films, every character in Who Done It? plays the story comp...
Perfectly in their element as fish-out-of-water characters in way over their heads, Hold That Ghost continued the cinematic trends that would serve Abbott and Costello throughout their careers. In the film, two bumbling gas station attendants inherit a haunted roadhouse from a gangster after he is bumped off by the competition. The second picture m...
Mirroring Universal's classic monsters crossover movies like Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, the comedy spoof Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein essentially put a hilarious period on the original Universal monsters cycle. A pair of luggage handlers find themselves in deadly danger when they run across the likes of Dracula, Frankenstein's monste...
Though Abbott and Costello movies often followed similar plots and reused the same jokes, The Time of Their Lives was a surprisingly adventurous outing. A couple moves into a new house and is haunted by silly spirits from the Revolutionary War who are trying to cross over to the other side. The film actually pitted the comedy duo against one anothe...
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- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi. 212 votes. In the first of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's horror vehicles for Universal Pictures, the inimitable comic duo star as railway baggage handlers in northern Florida.
- Hold That Ghost. Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Shemp Howard. 171 votes. Hold That Ghost is a 1941 comedy horror film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello and featuring Joan Davis, Evelyn Ankers, and Richard Carlson.
- Who Done It? Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Mary Wickes. 136 votes. is a 1942 comedy-mystery film starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.
- Buck Privates. Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, The Andrews Sisters. 138 votes. When two sidewalk salesmen, Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) and Herbie Brown (Lou Costello), duck into a theater to avoid being busted by the cops, they never expect it will lead to their enlisting in the army.
28 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff. 1949 1h 24m Approved. 6.7 (4.2K) Rate. Two employees of a secluded hotel investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect. Director Charles Barton Stars Bud Abbott Lou Costello Boris Karloff. 2.
Universal's The Invisible Man film series includes The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns, The Invisible Woman, Invisible Agent, The Invisible Man's Revenge and Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man.
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd. Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man. Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops. Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. Africa Screams.
In 1994, comedian Jerry Seinfeld—who says Abbott and Costello were strong influences on his work—hosted a television special Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (the title refers to the duo's popular film series in which they met some of Universal's famed horror picture characters), on NBC; the special was said to have been seen in 20 ...
