"Actor: Bud Abbott"

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• Abbott And Costello - TV Show - Volume 9 | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The Abbott and Costello TV Show is timeless American humor as fresh today as it was 40 years ago. All the classic routines which 'the boys' performed on film radio and stage were captured in 1952-1953 for the new medium of television and delivered at the peak of their powers.The regular cast of characters including Mr. Fields Mike the Cop Stinky Bacciagalupe and Hillary had worked with Bud and Lou on film and stage and each contributed memorably. These shows stand today as perhaps the finest surviving representation of the art and burlesque comedy.POLITICIANDelighted at the prospect of being Mike The Cop's boss Lou decides to run for Councilman. Bud coaches him on the fine points of kissing babies using Bingo the chimp for practice. Now a seasoned politician Lou holds a campaign rally in the park explaining the Confusion Party ticket to his supporters. Then a bevy of crying beauties get big-hearted Lou to donate most of his clothes to their needy fathers in a burlesque finale.PUBLIC ENEMIESTwo safecrackers and their molls move in next door to Bud and Lou. After a picture of Lou is mistakenly named master thief 'Dapper Dan' in the papers the gang recruits the boys for a warehouse heist. Chopper Coyle's girlfriend Fifi takes a liking to Lou and it's almost fatal until Bud convinces the tough guys that Lou 'acts so dumb he's a genius!' A zany chase ensues in the warehouse when Lou's real identity is discovered.FROM BED TO WORSEThe Big American Seed Company is giving 00 prize for the best home garden and Bud convinces Lou it's easy money. Unfortunately next door neighbour Bill Hart has the same idea and open warfare develops. In a nutty parade of backyard slapstick the boys blow up an obstinate stump destroy an underground water pipe and feud with Hart's trespassing chickens.CAR TROUBLELou's heart is set on winning a new car in the Jeepers Creepers Baby Food Contest. He wins but Bud tells him to sell the lemon after run-ins with Mike The Cop and an irate chauffer. They take the money to Flint Michigan to buy another car but on the return trip they're broke and must bum a meal from hoboes. Hiding a stolen chicken for the stewpot under his coat Lou is forced by the Sheriff to do bird impressions but they all sound like Agnes the missing hen.

• Abbott And Costello - TV Show - Volume 11 | DVD | (10/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The Abbott and Costello TV Show is timeless American humor as fresh today as it was 40 years ago. All the classic routines which the boys performed on film radio and stage were captured in 1952-1953 for the new medium of television and delivered at the peak of their powers.The regular cast of characters including Mr. Fields Mike The Cop Stinky Bacciagalupe and Hillary had worked with Bud and Lou on film and stage and each contributed memorably. These shows stand today as perhaps the finest surviving representation of the art of burlesque comedy.The Western StoryHillary's leaving to run the dude ranch she inherited from her uncle and she invites Bud and Lou to work for her. They get lost enroute but some smart aleck Indians get them to the B-Bar-Bop ranch. Once there Lou tries unsuccessfully to milk a cow. The boys then join a posse headed by Sheriff Fields to stop cattle thieves. In the Red Dog Saloon they confront Black Bart and Lou leads a wild barroom brawl that miraculously corrals the entire gang.Barber LouThe boys must talk their way out of 5 speeding tickets while rushing Mrs. Bronson to the roominghouse to rehearse for her benefit show. As Lou practices I Dream Of Jeannie Bud directs the curtain to be raised and lowered. Lou thinks these are stage directions - with zany results. After the benefit Lou gives Bud a rubdown while following the announcer on Fatless Frankie's Reducing Radio Show. But when the station switches to instructions on painting a car the rubdown takes a bizarre turn. Lou sandpapers Bud's rough exterior before applying a two-toned paint job.Las VegasBud and Lou decide to take their California Bankroll ($2 wrapped around an orange) and parlay it into big bucks in Las Vegas. But first they head to Friendly Fields' lot to buy a new car. After dickering for a real clunker the boys with Hillary in tow drive to Las Vegas. Once there a parade of zany touts try to tell Lou which horse to bet on. Bud explains the intricacies of mudders and fodders and Lou puts his bankroll on Bazooka who promptly loses. A pool game with a guy who thinks he's Julius Caesar send the boys home more broke than ever.Pest ExterminatorsThe Abbott & Costello Exterminator Company's first job is to rid a nutty psychiatrist's office of termites. Lou confronts a patient with his own assortment of pests: bats and polka-dotted elephants. Next Mrs. Featherton calls the doctor's office and Lou answers. Thinking he's the psychiatrist she asks him to take care of her crazy aunts. Exterminator Lou hears ants and the boys are off to exterminate them! The nutty aunts - who live on Wat (what?!) Street - wind up tying up Lou in a game of cowboys and Indians. When the boys proudly announce they've killed Mrs. Featherton's ants she goes berserk.

• Africa Screams | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Abbott and Costello go on an African safari armed with a secret map which will lead them to hidden diamonds... Please note: This is a NTSC disc.

• Abbott And Costello - TV Show - Volume 13 | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The Abbott and Costello TV Show is timeless American humor as fresh today as it was 40 years ago. All the classic routines which the boys performed on film radio and stage were captured in 1952-1953 for the new medium of television and delivered at the peak of their powers.The regular cast of characters including Mr. Fields Mike the Cop Stinky Bacciagalupe and Hillary had worked with Bud and Lou on film and stage and each contributed memorably. These shows stand today as perhaps the finest surviving representation of the art of burlesque comedy. Episodes include:SafariThe PaperhangersLife InsuranceAlaska

• Abbott And Costello - Laugh-A-Thon | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Abbott & Costello Classic Comedies three-disc collector's set consists of oddments from the latter days of their career that have fallen into public domain; which means you don't get their best routines or classiest productions, and indeed find the double act doing fairly tired schtick as Costello is chubbily chicken-hearted and Abbott grumpily money-grubbing. Africa Screams is a 1949 safari parody, with Costello running away yelping from sundry alligators, gorillas (including a Kong-sized giant), cannibals ("Chief have sweet tooth for little fat man") and lions amid backlot jungles as Abbott competes with stock villains for a fortune in diamonds. Jack and the Beanstalk, from 1952, finds the duo attempting to sell themselves as children's entertainers in a Wizard of Oz-influenced fairytale book-ended by sepia modern-day segments. The magical story unfolds in wonderfully gruesome cheap colour with some of the worst musical numbers ever committed to film ("he's perpendicular-la-la") as Jack the Clod (Costello) and Mr Dinkelpuss the Butcher (Abbott) climb the beanstalk and plod around the Giant's lair until the story runs out. Possibly the most interesting item is the third disc, which offers an episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour (aka The Abbott and Costello Show) from the 1950s. It shows the pair doing live routines closer to their original vaudeville act than their film roles (including an amazingly cruel bit in which Abbott slaps Costello every time he says the word "tin"). A loose plot about Latin American intrigue, with Lou hired to stand in for an assassination target "El Presidente", makes room for speciality guest stars ranging from child xylophonist Baby Mistin to four starlets (including Jane Russell and Rhonda Fleming) harmonising on a "Happy Easter" medley. Best of all, and now funnier than the comedy, are original hard-sell ads for household products like "Ajax, the foaming action cleanser" and "Halo, the shampoo that glorifies your hair". --Kim Newman

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• Africa Screams (Starlite) | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £8.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (10.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking fellow bookseller Stanley knows a great deal about Africa they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe. After encounters with lion tamers giant apes and a wild river Buzz returns to America. Stanley finds diamonds and buys the store they once worked for hiring Buzz as its elevator operator.

• Jack and the Beanstalk | DVD | (10/08/2009) from £10.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Abbott & Costello star in this version of Jack and the Beanstalk. After a modern prologue in monochrome Bud and Lou adapt their usual sharpie-and-patsy roles to colorful fairytale settings and Buddy Baer is an excellent foil as the fearsome giant. (Listen for cartoon-voice Mel Blanc playing several roles in the I Fear Nothing song.) Makes a fabulous children's matinee.

• Abbott And Costello - TV Show - Volume 12 | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The Abbott and Costello TV Show is timeless American humor as fresh today as it was 40 years ago. All the classic routines which the boys performed on film radio and stage were captured in 1952-1953 for the new medium of television and delivered at the peak of their powers.The regular cast of characters including Mr. Fields Mike the Cop Stinky Bacciagalupe and Hillary had worked with Bud and Lou on film and stage and each contributed memorably. These shows stand today as perhaps the finest surviving representation of the art of burlesque comedy.TelevisionBacciagalupe installs a TV set in the boys' apartment so Lou can watch the Hold That Cuckoo quiz show. Hillary babysits Bingo the Chimp so Bud and Lou can go on the show. Incredibly Lou answers the questions right but the grand prize is a box of bubble gum! Back home Lou spits out his gum and drunken John Rednose promptly trips on it. He sues landlord Fields and in the wildest courtroom scene ever the boys burlesque the entire judicial system. Hillary's two girlfriends testify they're positive positive positive Rednose is guilty and the judge closes the case with a gavel to Lou's head.The Haunted HouseHillary asks Bud and Lou to spend the night in the haunted castle she's inherited from her Uncle Montague. Lawyer Melonhead says if she doesn't she loses everything and he gets it. In a non-stop parade of creepy comedy Lou has run-ins with a gorilla floating candles ghosts and secret panels. Even strange echoes try to scare him away. While studying the map to the hidden treasure the lovesick ape grabs Lou. But Melonhead's attempts to scare them away fail and the gorilla even joins the boys' act.The VacationThe boys plan a restful vacation at the Biltmore Hotel near Phoenix. After painfully explaining to Lou what a Hertz U-Drive is Bud takes Lou to Sporty Fields store to stock up for vacation. Lou creates havoc everywhere even driving a motorboat through the store. At home Bud's fears that the landlord will rent their apartment while they're gone has him pack and unpack repeatedly. After a long goodbye to Hillary the boys pack up the obstinate car and consult the map. Lou drives 100 yards down the street to the Biltmore Hotel next to the Phoenix Cafe!South Of DixieLou's lovesick again! This time it's an aspiring actress who moves into the boy's rooming house. Lou overhears her rehearsing a violent scene with an actor and crashes into her apartment to save her. Impressed with his moving performance she drafts Lou Bud and Fields into the southern drama. The result bears little resemblance to the planned play as it becomes filled with Abbott & Costello routines. With Lou as a zany Union soldier the boys prove to be true uncivil warriors.

• 3 Classic Abbott And Costello Features Of The Silver Screen | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Africa Screams: Buzz Johnson (Bud Abbott) and Stanley Livingston (Lou Costello) go on an African safari in search of treasure. Buzz is a bookseller who tricks Diana Emerson (Hillary Brooke) into believing that his fellow bookseller Stanley is an expert on Africa. They are thereby abducted by Diana's henchmen who expect the two self proclaimed hunters to lead her to an African tribe. On the way there they run up against giant apes lion tamers and a wild river. Jack And Th

• Classic Double Acts | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Consisting of 9 Classic films and TV shows spread over 3 discs this collection brings you the best of Abbott & Costello Hope & Crosby and Laurel & Hardy. Titles included are: Disc 1: Africa Screams: Abbott and Costello go on an African safari armed with a secret map which will lead them to hidden diamonds... Jack And The Beanstalk: Bud and Lou take on a babysitting job and find themselves involved in the Jack And The Beanstalk fairy tale! One of the very few

• Comedy 10-DVD Box Set | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  This mammoth of a box set contains ten great comedy titles from the golden era of cinema. Features: 1.Jack And The Beanstalk 2.Buster Keaton: Vol. 1 3.The Charlie Chaplin Collection: Vol. 1 4.Laurel & Hardy: Flying Deuces 5.The Charlie Chaplin Collection: Vol. 2 6.Laurel & Hardy Collection: Vol. 1 7.Buster Keaton: Vol. 2 8.Laurel & Hardy Collection: Vol. 2 9.Laurel & Hardy Collection: Vol. 3 10.Africa Screams For individual synopses please refer to individual titles.

• Jack & the Beanstalk (Abbott & Costello) | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £12.13   |  Saving you £-2.14 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The legendary comedic duo Abbott and Costello provide fairy tale fun for kids. The wacky pair pretty much stick to the outline of the original but add their own signature comic flourishes and slapstick details. Jack is a local farmer who is asked to buy a cow at the local market with his family's last few coins. He is tricked into swapping the cow for some beans which he takes home and plants. In the morning he finds that a giant beanstalk has grown high into the sky...

• Abbott And Costello - Africa Screams | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

• Abbott And Costello - Jack And The Beanstalk | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The legendary comedic duo Abbott and Costello provide fairy tale fun for kids (of ALL ages!). The wacky pair pretty much stick to the outline of the original childrens fairytale but add their own signature comic flourishes and slapstick details.

• Africa Screams | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Booksellers Buzz and Stanley convince Diana Emerson that they know more about Africa than they actually do resulting in them being kidnapped and ordered to head a diamond seeking expedition. Thus they are pitted against assorted lion tamers giant apes a wild river and henchmen before finding the treasure.

• Africa Screams | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Bud Abbott and Lou Costello set off on a trip to Africa when Lou claims to know the whereabouts of a cache of diamonds. The zany comics are at peak form in this nonsensical foray into the jungle.