Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy is the last of the team's vehicles for Universal-International. Stranded in Egypt, Bud and...
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1955
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The best thing that can be said about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is that it's better than the team's previous...
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1955
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A real "must see" for devotees of 1950s pop culture, Ring of Fear boasts a script co-written by character actor Paul Fix and...
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1954
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Fireman Save My Child started out as an Abbott and Costello picture, but then Lou Costello became ill with rheumatic fever....
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1954
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The Abbott and Costello Show, a home release from GoodTimes Video, is actually a vintage episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour,...
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1954
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They don't really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base,...
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1953
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This was the last in a string of spoofs that found the comedy duo tangling with various classic Universal Studios monsters....
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1953
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Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away...
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1952
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Though out of favor with many Abbott and Costello buffs, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is actually a lot of fun, so...
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1952
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1951
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1951
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1951
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello play wrestling promoters whose star attraction, Wee Willie Davis, skips town to return to his...
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1950
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This Abbott & Costello vehicle was originally planned as a Bob Hope comedy titled Easy Does It. The Hope role is fairly...
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1949
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Cole Porter's Broadway musical Mexican Hayride was optioned by Universal in the mid-1940s, then remained in "development...
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1948
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It seems that Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), in league with a beautiful but diabolical lady scientist (Lenore Aubert), needs a...
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1948
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For their first independently-produced vehicle, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello chose to appear in a remake of the 1939 Universal...
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1948
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The Abbott & Costello western spoof The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap is predicated on an actual Montana law of the 19th...
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1947
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After serving with a notable lack of distinction in WW2, Corporal Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) and Private Herbie Brown...
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1947
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While perhaps not Abbott & Costello's best film, The Time of Their Lives is certainly their most unusual. Lou Costello plays...
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1946
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Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place...
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1945
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At 88 minutes, Here Come the Co-Eds is one of the longest of Abbott & Costello's Universal starring vehicles, and though not...
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1945
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Lost in a Harem is arguably the best of Abbott & Costello's trio of MGM films; it's certainly the silliest, with any number...
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1944
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For their first film in a year, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello played it safe with a medley of old burlesque routines and...
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1944
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Two Bowery vaudevillians compete to be the first to produce shows on Broadway. They might be friends were they not so...
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1944
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The Abbott & Costello vehicle Hit the Ice started life as satire of health clinics, with Lou Costello cast as a hypochondriac...
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1943
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In one of their most genial comedies -- based on a Damon Runyon story -- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello have to help one friend...
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1943
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1942
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One of the most often revived of Abbott & Costello's early-1940s films, Pardon My Sarong casts Bud and Lou as Chicago bus...
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1942
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Bud Abbott & Lou Costello invade the wild west in Ride 'Em Cowboy. The boys play Duke and Willoughby, a couple of rodeo...
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1942
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MGM's Rio Rita is an in-name-only remake of the 1929 RKO Radio musical blockbuster, itself based on the long-running Ziegfeld...
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1942
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1941
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The third of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's starring films, In the Navy was released second; Universal had just made a bundle...
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1941
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Filmed on a B-picture budget, Buck Privates was Universal's biggest box-office hit of 1941, firmly securing the movie...
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1941
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Hold That Ghost was the second of Abbott and Costello's starring films, but was held back from release in favor of their...
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1941
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