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Date Posted: 05:42:35 03/04/10 Thu
Author: Rick
Subject: Favorite Universals with Abbott & Costello

A new one for good discussion.






Rick

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[> Re: Favorite Universals with Abbott & Costello -- Officer Torch, 08:12:55 03/05/10 Fri [1]

Want a few laughs? Some Universal monsters as well? Watch the 1948 movie..Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. All kinds of fun stuff with the monster characters we're familiar with. Nicely done, humorous, and nostalgia galore.

As a kid, I'd try to watch "The Abbott and Costello Show"....a half hour comedy show. Do you recall Mr Fields their landlord, Mike the cop, Hillary Brooke (Lou's girlfriend?),and who can forget Bingo the chimp. There were many more characters. Bud and Lou were unemployed/underemployed actors trying to get by, and most of the programs were about small stuff, almost nothing, but in fact something. Ring a bell? These guys inspired Jerry Seinfeld for his series.


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[> Re: Favorite Universals with Abbott & Costello -- joystar, 08:16:07 03/05/10 Fri [1]

My favourites are HOLD THAT GHOST (I love Evie) and ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN...for Bela.

more smiles than a barrel full of monkeys..
JS


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[> Re: Favorite Universals with Abbott & Costello -- Tim, 07:20:59 03/07/10 Sun [1]

Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein gets my vote. Bela Lugosi as Dracula and Lon Chaney as The Wolf
Man! Karloff gave up the monster role after Son of Frankenstein (1939) but Glenn Strange does a nice job.

Tim


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[> [> Re: Favorite Universals with Abbott & Costello -- DAN, 12:53:26 03/10/10 Wed [1]

A&C Meet Frankenstein would be my favorite too.

I remember when I first saw it back in Oct 1959.
I was expecting the monsters to be fakes as in "Hold That Ghost" and several of the Three Stooges shorts I had seen before.
But to my surprise the monsters turned out to be the real deal. I found out just as soon as Talbot changed into the Wolfman while talking to Wilbur on the phone. I was so glad to see that the monsters were not going to end up being fakes, and I was also happy to see the monsters being played straight.

This is one of the few horror or A&C films that my father never saw before that he couldn't talk about with me like he has with so many other films he saw before I got to see them on TV.

Second pick would be "Hold That Ghost."


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