Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
by Charles Lamont

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
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DVD Cover Information

Actor: Bud Abbott, Dan Seymour, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara
Director: Charles Lamont
Brand: MCA
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 80 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios

Movie Reviews of Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Movie Review: Just Funny Stuff
Summary: 5 Stars

I agree with most of the critic that this is the best of the A & C movies. No special messages to get across to the masses, no particular social redeeming value, just funny stuff.

Summary of Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Abbott & Costello encounter a vengeful mummy in Cairo.
Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 08/28/01
Wide Screen: no
Director Cut: no
Special Edition: no
Language: ENGLISH
Foreign Film: noSubtitles: no
Dubbed: no
Full Frame: yes
Re-Release: no
Packaging: Sleeve
After 15 years of hit movies for Universal Studios, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello left the studio in the twilight of their partnership with the last of their monster comedies. Decked out in desert safari gear, the boys go looking for a job with an Egyptologist and wind up in the middle of a conspiracy concerning the murdered professor, an ancient mummy, and a magical medallion that, true to form, bumbling Costello manages to eat for dinner. Marie Windsor, the boss lady of a gang of treasure hunting crooks, dresses in a harem outfit to vamp for our chubby little hero, and the eternally stiff Richard Deacon hilariously plays the leader of an Egyptian mummy cult like a high school principal decked out for Halloween. Directed by longtime collaborator Charles Lamont, it's a typical Abbott and Costello farce with disappearing corpses, mistaken identities, and wacky word plays ("Take your pick" riffs on "Who's on first" with garden tools). While not as clever or spirited as their original monster mash Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the vaudeville veterans are still masters of the double take and fast-talk patter, and the picture climaxes with a screwball chase that involves not one, not two, but three mummies skittering through the phoniest looking pyramid this side of community theater. You were expecting realism? The boys appeared together once more on film, in Dance with Me, Henry, and then split up. --Sean Axmaker

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