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Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, 1950

22 July 2008 – 3:30 pm +0800

I think I’m getting a little overdosed on Bud and Lou. The more I watch, the less I seem to have to say, despite this being one of the stronger entries in the collection I bought.
At the opening of Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Bud is a wrestling manager in New York [...]

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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, 1948

21 July 2008 – 6:31 am +0800

Arguably, this is it — the very best Abbott and Costello movie there is. The boys are in top form, and they get to play off a scenario that is not, at least at the time of the making of this film, threadbare. They get an actual story, into which their antics fit [...]

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Comin’ Round the Mountain, 1951

17 July 2008 – 8:47 am +0800

Talk about your mixed bag. There are moments here that rank right up with almost any routine Abbott and Costello ever did.1 And there are interminable stretches of deadly dullness, punctuated by deadly dull songs. Seven (!) of them.
But all in all, certainly worth watching.
After Comin’ Round the Mountain opens a Manhattan [...]

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Yesterday's movie | Also tagged Abbott, comedy, Costello, family, Kentucky, Manhattan, Margaret Hamilton, McCoy, McCoy-Wakefield, movie, Movies, nightclub, review, Reviews, voodoo | Comments (0)

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, 1951

16 July 2008 – 7:31 am +0800

Dang, this one was good.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are graduating Detective School at the beginning of this one.1 They get hired by a private detective agency and work the night shift alone in the office. Their first night a man walks in with a case. He’s a boxer who’s been framed [...]

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Yesterday's movie | Also tagged Abbott, abbott and costello meet the invisible man, boxer, boxing ring, Claude Rains, comedy, Costello, film, gag, invisibility, movie, murder, private detective agency, Universal Studios | Comments (0)

Lost in Alaska, 1952

15 July 2008 – 7:53 am +0800

Unlike Abbott and Costello Go To Mars, this is the bottom of the barrel as Abbott and Costello movies go. But the great thing is that with A&C there’s a baseline of quality to their work. However bad the script, low the budget, or awful the cast, Bud and Lou are pretty much [...]

By Ian Michael Hamet | Posted in Yesterday's movie | Also tagged Abbott, abbott and costello movies, Alaska, comedy, Costello, film, gag, gold, joke, Mitzi Green, movie, Movies, nostalgia, Nugget, roulette wheel, San Francisco, Tom Ewell, Yukon | Comments (0)

Abbott and Costello Go To Mars, 1953

14 July 2008 – 3:27 pm +0800

This movie was probably a huge influence over who I am. Frightening thought.
As Abbott & Costello movies go, it’s really not that great. Better than the worst, certainly watchable with moments that are genuinely funny, but hardly top of the line. (We’ll be getting to the top of the line next week.)
But [...]

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