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.
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
3 more films starring the personification of Hollywood's Dracula Bela Lugosi. Spooks Run Wild (1941): The East Side Kids get a chance to sample the other side of life when they are sent to the country to learn how to live beyond the streets. When they arrive at the house in which they are due to stay they find out that it is haunted! The Devil Bat (1940): Evil Dr. Carruthers (Lugosi) feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers Heath and Morton when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members... Black Dragons (1942): A cabal of American industrialists all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. It is only until detective Dick Martin is assigned to the case that everyone's true motives and identities are revealed...
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
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.
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