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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 107.2/10X 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
Adventure | Comedy | Horror
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 107.5/10X After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.
Director:Arthur Lubin
Stars:Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Richard Carlson
Director:William A. Seiter
Stars:Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Brenda Joyce
Action | Comedy | Crime
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 106.8/10X Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things ... See full summary »
Directors:Jean Yarbrough,Erle C. Kenton
Stars:Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Marion Hutton
Comedy | Music | Musical
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 106.7/10X Two bumblers become caretakers at an all-girls college. During their misadventures, the duo raise money to free the school from its traditionally-minded landlord.
Director:Jean Yarbrough
Stars:Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Peggy Ryan
Certificate: G Adventure | Comedy | Music
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 107/10X A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
Director:Erle C. Kenton
Stars:Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Virginia Bruce
Certificate: G Comedy | Film-Noir | Mystery
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 107.5/10X 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.
Director:Erle C. Kenton
Stars:Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Patric Knowles
Certificate: G Comedy | Crime | Music
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 106.9/10X Two newspaper photographers get mixed up with gangsters at a ski resort.
Directors:Charles Lamont,Erle C. Kenton
Stars:Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Ginny Simms
Action | Adventure | Comedy
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 106.7/10X When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
Directors:Arthur Lubin,Ralph Ceder
Stars:Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Martha Raye
Comedy | Musical
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 106.5/10X Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions.
Director:Charles Lamont
Stars:Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Dorothy Shay
Certificate: G Adventure | Comedy
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 106.5/10X Two Brooklyn wrestling promoters go to French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler but accidentally end-up in the French Foreign Legion.
Director:Charles Lamont
Stars:Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Patricia Medina
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 106.9/10X Adaptation of the Damon Runyon story 'Princess O'Hara', in which the horse of a street vendor is replaced by a racehorse.
Director:Erle C. Kenton
Stars:Bud Abbott,Lou Costello,Grace McDonald
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Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence. Written byDaniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
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FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DIE LAUGHING! (original print ad - all caps)
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The spirits of Horatio and Melody are bound to Danbury Acres until doomsday or some evidence exonerates them of being traitors. It's never explained why Tom Danbury's memoirs, which confesses his own guilt but affirms that both Melody and Horatio were innocent of any wrongdoing, fails to constitute the evidence needed to set them free.
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Melody Allen:I need help.
Horatio Prim:[
With his head sticking out of a trunk]What do you think I need? Would you please me get out of this overcoat?
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How Dry I Am
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Arthur Fields Lyrics by
Fred Hall In the score when Horatio drinks by the well
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Release Date:
19 August 1950 (Japan)
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Mono(Western Electric Recording)
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This one had by miles the best plot of any A&C film, and has always been in my Top 5 favourites of theirs. Otoh it isn't the best A&C film as they were again working within a separate framework ('Little Giant' being the other), instead of Abbott & Costello the comedy team this was Abbott, and Costello the comedy actors. With less reliance on the violent slapstick TTOTL can hold its own against other films of this genre, on its own merits. And even though the print is in pristine condition, at the time of writing in 2005 had not been shown on UK TV since 1.10.1977!
The plot - Costello and Reynolds shot by their own side by mistake and also rather vehemently accursed as traitors by the Major in charge in 1780, after 165 years as ghosts they both get the chance to clear themselves of the slur and take their place in Heaven. Although the similar 'Ghost Goes West' is much better in nearly all departments, this also manages exceptionally well to capture the bittersweet and melancholic mixed emotions that this type of storyline could generate.
A marvellous experiment, and one I wish they'd tried a few more times in the following years - instead what followed a few years later was 'Captain Kidd' and 'Jack and the Beanstalk' - no comment!