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Abbott and Costello (film series): Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hold That Ghost, Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer
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| Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hold That Ghost, Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, The Time of Their Lives, Ride 'Em Cowboy, Dance with Me, Henry, Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, The Abbott and Costello Show, Buck Privates Come Home, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Africa Screams, The Noose Hangs High, The Naughty Nineties, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, Comin' Round the Mountain, Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, Mexican Hayride, Little Giant, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, One Night in the Tropics, Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap, Here Come the Co-Eds, Rio Rita, In Society, Keep 'Em Flying, Lost in a Harem, Who Done It?, Pardon My Sarong, Lost in Alaska, Hit the Ice, It Ain't Hay, In the Navy, The World of Abbott and Costello, 10,000 Kids and a Cop. Excerpt: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (which has the onscreen title Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein) is a 1948 American comedy horror film directed by Charles Barton and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It is the first of several films where the comedy duo meets classic characters from Universal's horror film stable. In this film, they encounter Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man, while subsequent films pair the duo with the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Invisible Man. On a TV special in the early 1950s, the two did a sketch where they interacted with the latest original Universal Studios monster being promoted at the time, the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). The film is considered the swan song for the "Big Three" Universal horror monsters ¿ Count Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster ¿ although it does not appear to fit within the loose continuity of the earlier films. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed this film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry, and in September 2007, Readers Digest selected the movie as one of the top 100 funniest films of all time. The 1948 film is recognized by historians as the definitive end point to the American golden age of the monster mash and the classic Universal monster cycle. The movie opens with Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.) making an urgent call from London to a railway baggage claim room in LaMirada, Florida where Chick Young (Bud Abbott) and Wilbur Grey (Lou Costello) work as baggage-clerks. Talbot tries to impart the danger of a shipment to the "McDougal House Of Horrors" to Wilbur. However, before he is able, a full moon rises and he becomes The Wolf Man and the call is disconnected. Wilbur, thinking the call is just a crank, continues on with his work day. Then, when the actual Mr. McDougal (Frank Ferguson) shows up to claim the shipment, Wilbur get |
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