Description: Abbott and Costello were an American comedy duo composed of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, whose work on radio and in film and television made them the most popular comedy team of the 1940s and early 1950s and the highest-paid entertainers in the world during World War II. Their patter routine “Who’s on First?” is one of the best-known comedy routines of all time.
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One Night in the Tropics
( 1940 )
Jim "Lucky" Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancee, Cynthia (Nancy Kelly). The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey (Peggy Moran), and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The ...Read all
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Buck Privates
( 1941 )
Two sidewalk salesman enlist in the army in order to avoid jail, only to find that their drill instructor is the police officer who tried having them imprisoned.
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In the Navy
( 1941 )
Russ Raymond, America's number one crooner, disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. Dorothy Roberts, a magazine journalist, is intent on finding out what happened to Russ and she tries everything she can to get a picture of him to prove he's Russ Raymond. Tommy's friends, Pomeroy Watson and Smokey Adams,help him while Pomeroy writes love letters t...Read all
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Hold That Ghost
( 1941 )
After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.
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Keep 'Em Flying
( 1941 )
When a barnstorming stunt pilot joins the Air Corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him.
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Ride 'Em Cowboy
( 1942 )
Two peanut vendors at a traveling rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that both know nothing about cowboys, horses, or much of anything.
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Pardon My Sarong
( 1942 )
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.
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Who Done It?
( 1942 )
Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder after the station owner is killed during a broadcast.
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Rio Rita
( 1942 )
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
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It Ain't Hay
( 1943 )
The horse of a street vendor is replaced by a racehorse.
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Hit the Ice
( 1943 )
Two newspaper photographers get mixed up with gangsters at a ski resort.
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In Society
( 1944 )
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
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Here Come the Co-eds
( 1945 )
Two bumblers become caretakers at an all-girls' college. During their misadventures, the duo raise money to free the school from its traditionally-minded landlord.
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The Naughty Nineties
( 1945 )
When their captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers, stage show star Abbott and his bumbling sidekick Costello must put things right.
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Lost in a Harem
( 1944 )
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
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Little Giant
( 1946 )
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like The Time of Their Lives (1946), in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudevil...Read all
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The Time of Their Lives
( 1946 )
A psychiatrist stays in a mansion haunted by prankish ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
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Buck Privates Come Home
( 1947 )
Two World War II veterans return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
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The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
( 1947 )
Chester Wooley (Lou Costello) and Duke Egan (Bud Abbott) are traveling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana en route to California. During the stopover, notorious criminal Fred Hawkins is murdered and the two are charged with the crime. They are quickly tried, convicted, and sentenced to die by hanging. The head of the local citizens' committee, Jim Simp...Read all
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Oysters and Muscles (Short 1948)
Lou agrees to wrestle the Masked Marvel, believing he will be Bud's gentle friend McGuirk; but neither are aware that the Marvel's manager has substituted the menacing "Strangler" under the mask after McGuirk takes sick.
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The Noose Hangs High
( 1948 )
Two window washers mistakenly receive, and lose, $50,000 belonging to a shady bookie, and have only forty-eight hours to retrieve the money.
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Kitchen Mechanics (Short 1949)
Lou and Bud start their new job as live-in caretakers on a college campus by trying - very trying - to get their own quarters cleaned up.
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Fun on the Run (Short 1949)
Bixby College needs to win the girls' basketball tourney prize-money in order to survive, but a pair of gamblers have brought in some Amazonian ringers to play for the opposition and Lou, in drag, is playing for the Bixby team.
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Mexican Hayride
( 1948 )
Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.
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Africa Screams
( 1949 )
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
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Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
( 1950 )
Two Brooklyn wrestling promoters go to French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler but accidentally end-up in the French Foreign Legion.
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Jack and the Beanstalk
( 1952 )
Abbott and Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.
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Lost in Alaska
( 1952 )
Two firemen rescue a gold miner from suicide. However, discovering the police want them for murder, they travel with the miner to Alaska to help chase his girl. There, they discover that the town wants the miner dead.
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The Abbott and Costello Show
( 1952 )
The Abbott and Costello Show is timeless humor as fresh today as it was 50 years ago. All of Abbott and Costellos classic routines such as 'Whos on first' can be found in this show. This program captures the two when they were at their peak of their comedic poweress. The cast include Mr.Field, Mike the Cop, Stinky, Bacciagalupe and Hillary. These shows stand today as perhaps the finest surviving representation of the art of burlesque comedy.
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Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
( 1952 )
Rocky and Puddin' Head are waiting tables at an inn on Tortuga when a letter given them by Lady Jane for delivery to Martingale gets switched with a treasure map. Kidd and Bonney kidnap them to Skull Island to find said treasure.
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Gobs in a Mess (Short 1953)
Nine minutes lifted out of In the Navy (1941) and released to the 16mm and 8mm home movie market in the pre-VCR era.
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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
( 1953 )
Two workmen accidentally launch a space rocket intended for Mars, and find mistakenly landing in New Orleans just the beginning of their misadventures.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
( 1955 )
Harry and Willie buy the Edison Movie Studio in the year 1912 from Joseph Gorman, a confidence man. They follow Gorman to Hollywood where, as stunt men, they find him directing movies as Sergei Trumanoff and stealing the studio payroll.
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
( 1955 )
Two bumbling Americans stumble on the discovery of a lifetime when their search for a mummy leads them to a sacred medallion that holds the key to buried treasure.
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The World of Abbott and Costello
( 1965 )
A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott and Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947), In the Navy (1941), Hit the Ice (1943), Who Done It? (1942), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Mexican Hayride (1948), Hold That Ghost (1941), Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950), Little Giant (1946), In Society (1944), Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942), T...Read all
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Piglet : Just saw a highlight of this new drama. Looks like it could be worth watching.