Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein [VHS]

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein [VHS]
by Charles Barton

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Actor: Bela Lugosi, Bud Abbott, Glenn Strange, Lon Chaney Jr., Lou Costello
Director: Charles Barton
Cinematographer: Charles Van Enger
Producer: Robert Arthur
Writer: Bram Stoker
Writer: Frederic I. Rinaldo
Writer: John Grant
Writer: Mary Shelley
Writer: Robert Lees
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Black & White, NTSC
Running Time: 83 minutes
Release Date: 1992-03-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Publisher: Universal Studios
Studio: Universal Studios

VHS Movie Reviews of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein [VHS]

Movie Review: Their Shining Jewel
Summary: 5 Stars

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.

Movie Review: Monsters
Summary: 4 Stars

I know I'm showing my age, but I first saw this when it came out in 1948. Dopes whose intentions are well meant, but come out heroes in the end. The wolfman(lon Chaney, Jr.), and Dracula(Bela Lugosi)set the tone for our current monster movies. Viewed best if the viewer will try and
imagine this genre in the 40's when most of the monster films were B & W. There are some great comedic lines in this movie that will live forever.

Movie Review: High Camp
Summary: 5 Stars

I love this thing and watch it every Halloween. It's campy fun and really a hoot to see all these old, serious horror characters bumbling about in true comic Keystone Cops fashion. My kids love it also, and I don't think anything that's well done ever ages. Great stuff!

Movie Review: Halloween Classic
Summary: 5 Stars

This is a must for the Halloween movie buff. My daughters grew up watching this one on VHS. The B&W movie fans will appreciate it's clear picture on DVD.

Fun for the entire family, although, my daughters always reminded me there are some scary parts....but isn't that the point?

Patiently awaiting my next shipment of classics from Amazon.

Movie Review: Total Entertainment
Summary: 5 Stars

Classic Abbott and Costello. Never get tired of watching although Ive seen this movie many times over the years. Now my older kids are hooked and enjoy watching A&C classics. This ones a must for your classic movie collection.

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Summary of Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein [VHS]

Universal Pictures made a great deal of money from its monster movies in the 1930s. In the early '40s, the burlesque team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello kept the studio's coffers full. When the two franchises were combined in 1948, the result was another windfall--despite the apparent oil-and-water mix of subject matter. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein was the first of these summit meetings, although the title is a misnomer. Actually, Bud and Lou bump into most of the Universal heavy-hitters, including Count Dracula (played by B?la Lugosi himself), the Wolfman (Lon Chaney Jr.), and the Frankenstein monster (veteran monster Glenn Strange). There's even a token appearance by the Invisible Man, whose disembodied voice is recognizable as that of Vincent Price. Sure enough, the film is funny, especially since it gives the portly Costello multiple opportunities to do his wide-eyed, quivering scaredy-cat routine. Audiences ate it up, and in future installments Bud and Lou would run into Boris Karloff, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, and the Mummy. But the first was the best. --Robert Horton

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