Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
by Charles Barton
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Actor: Bela Lugosi, Bud Abbott, Glenn Strange, Lon Chaney Jr., Lou CostelloDirector: Charles Barton
Brand: ABBOTT & COSTELLO
Cinematographer: Charles Van Enger
Producer: Robert Arthur
Writer: Bram Stoker
Writer: Frederic I. Rinaldo
Writer: John Grant
Writer: Mary Shelley
Writer: Robert Lees
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: Pan & Scan, 1.33:1
Running Time: 83 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-08-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Movie Review: Their Shining Jewel
Summary: 5 Stars
Abbott and Costello were especially good comedians. However, their box office popularity was slipping a little before this film was made. For all practical purposes, this film created the Comedy-Horror genre. The Abbott and Costello characters played their parts like comedians; the monsters played their parts straight. The film features veteran horror actors from Universat Studios -- Glenn Strange aas the Frankenstein Monster, Lon Chsaney, Jr., as The Wolfman, and Bela Lugosi as the definitive film Count Dracula.
The comedians play shipping company employees,who are to deliver the coffin of Count Dracula and the body of the Frankenstein Monster to a "House of Horrors" exhibit hall, shipped from overseas. Costello plays a clerk who is relatively innocent and more credulous than Abbott's character, yet inexplicably, Costello's character seems to be a babe magnet, much to his partner's consternation. The duo bring the crates to the House of Horrors, and they start to uncrate the exhibits. As Costello's character is by himself, Count Dracula stirrs, scaring Costello, but the Abbot character won't believe him. Dracula revives the Frankenstein Monster using a portable pocket-sized power pack and then hypnotizes the Costello character so he can make off with the monster. The reason is explained: Count Dracula wants to exchange the brain in the monster for a simpler one -- the Costello character -- so that the monster would be more tractable to control, something Dr. Frankenstein hadn't taken into consideration. The lady who showed such interest in Costello was actually a skilled surgeon working for Count Draculs, who will make thr trsnsplantt. Opposing these people is Larry Talbot -- a werewolf known to moviegoers as the Wolfmsn -- who opposes Count Dracula's evil intents, but Talbot deems like a nut to Abbott's chsrscter. character. The disapprarance of the Frankenstein Monster aand other irregularities in the delivery get the shippers into trouble. A new cutrie turns up, and immedistely focuses romsmantically on the Costello character, much to the Abbott characters chaaracter''s consternation. Count Dracula's established himdelf on s spooky castle, unaccountably ion sn islsnd in Florida. With a costume ball as a backgtound, the duo accompany of the two eomen who are really both the Costello chsrscter's dates. Talbot crashes the ball, and SDracula goes after the costello character,transforming inyto as bat and chasing the Costello charACTER TO a boat, where he faints. Dracula transforms, finally convincing the Abbot character that all he's been dismissing is actually real.
The film has the look and feel of the older Universal horror films, but they contrast nicely with the comedy. The film works beautifuilly, and is a vclassic of nf film comedy. Highly recommended, unless you've lost your sense of humor.
Summary of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
Abbott and Costello are working as railroad clerks and receive a shipment containing the last remains of Dracula and Frankenstein. When the remains disappear the clerks are blamed.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 22-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD
Universal Pictures made a great deal of money from its monster movies in the 1930s. In the early '40s, the burlesque team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello kept the studio's coffers full. When the two franchises were combined in 1948, the result was another windfall--despite the apparent oil-and-water mix of subject matter. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was the first of these summit meetings, although the title is a misnomer. Actually, Bud and Lou bump into most of the Universal heavy-hitters, including Count Dracula (played by B?la Lugosi himself), the Wolfman (Lon Chaney Jr.), and the Frankenstein monster (veteran monster Glenn Strange). There's even a token appearance by the Invisible Man, whose disembodied voice is recognizable as that of Vincent Price. Sure enough, the film is funny, especially since it gives the portly Costello multiple opportunities to do his wide-eyed, quivering scaredy-cat routine. Audiences ate it up, and in future installments Bud and Lou would run into Boris Karloff, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, and the Mummy. But the first was the best. --Robert Horton
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