Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein R1 Bela Lugosi

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Abbott and Costello, as railroad baggage clerks, receive a strange shipmentthe last remains of Dracula and Frankenstein's monster. But this deadly duo is still very much alive. So when the shipment arrives at the House of Horrors, the Monsters are not in their crates but have disappeared to a secret hideaway island. Blamed for the disappearance, Abbott and Costello follow their trail to the island, where not only do they meet up with Dracula (Bela Lugosi) and the Monster (Glenn Strange), but a Mad Scientist (Charles Bradstreet) who wants to switch Costello's brain with that of the Monster. With everyone chasing each other, the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney, Jr.) shows up to scare them all. In the end everything works out: Costello finds romance and the Monsters find their final resting placesor do they?

Bonus Content:

• Abbott and Costello Meet the Monsters
• Feature Commentary with Film Historian Gregory W. Mank
• Production Photographs
• Theatrical Trailer
• Production Notes
• Cast and Filmmakers

• Director ? : ? Charles Barton
• Media Format ? : ? Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
• Run time ? : ? 1 hour and 23 minutes
• Release date ? : ? August 22, 2006
• Actors ? : ? Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange
• Subtitles: ? : ? English, French
• Producers ? : ? Robert Arthur
• Language ? : ? English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Studio ? : ? Universal Pictures Home Entertainment

Abbott and Costello were especially good comedians. However, their box office popularity was slipping a little before this film was made. For all practical purposes, this film created the Comedy-Horror genre. The Abbott and Costello characters played their parts like comedians; the monsters played their parts straight. The film features veteran horror actors from Universat Studios -- Glenn Strange aas the Frankenstein Monster, Lon Chsaney, Jr., as The Wolfman, and Bela Lugosi as the definitive film Count Dracula.

The comedians play shipping company employees,who are to deliver the coffin of Count Dracula and the body of the Frankenstein Monster to a "House of Horrors" exhibit hall, shipped from overseas. Costello plays a clerk who is relatively innocent and more credulous than Abbott's character, yet inexplicably, Costello's character seems to be a babe magnet, much to his partner's consternation. The duo bring the crates to the House of Horrors, and they start to uncrate the exhibits. As Costello's character is by himself, Count Dracula stirrs, scaring Costello, but the Abbot character won't believe him. Dracula revives the Frankenstein Monster using a portable pocket-sized power pack and then hypnotizes the Costello character so he can make off with the monster. The reason is explained: Count Dracula wants to exchange the brain in the monster for a simpler one -- the Costello character -- so that the monster would be more tractable to control, something Dr. Frankenstein hadn't taken into consideration. The lady who showed such interest in Costello was actually a skilled surgeon working for Count Draculs, who will make thr trsnsplantt. Opposing these people is Larry Talbot -- a werewolf known to moviegoers as the Wolfmsn -- who opposes Count Dracula's evil intents, but Talbot deems like a nut to Abbott's chsrscter. character. The disapprarance of the Frankenstein Monster aand other irregularities in the delivery get the shippers into trouble. A new cutrie turns up, and immedistely focuses romsmantically on the Costello character, much to the Abbott characters chaaracter''s consternation. Count Dracula's established himdelf on s spooky castle, unaccountably ion sn islsnd in Florida. With a costume ball as a backgtound, the duo accompany of the two eomen who are really both the Costello chsrscter's dates. Talbot crashes the ball, and SDracula goes after the costello character,transforming inyto as bat and chasing the Costello charACTER TO a boat, where he faints. Dracula transforms, finally convincing the Abbot character that all he's been dismissing is actually real.
The film has the look and feel of the older Universal horror films, but they contrast nicely with the comedy. The film works beautifuilly, and is a vclassic of nf film comedy. Highly recommended, unless you've lost your sense of humor.

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