Last night I watched “Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein“ in my brand new A&C 8-pack. I would like to assume that everyone reading this has seen it, but I’m sure many of you still need to, so here:
(You can get all three sets, 24 movies in all, for under $50!)
The title is actually too short, because in addition to featuring a Frankenstein’s monster it stars Bela Lugosi as Dracula AND Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolfman, with an uncredited cameo by Vincent Price. It was Universal’s second biggest hit of 1948 and it was the only other time Lugosi played Dracula. The beauty of this movie is that the horror characters are played straight while Abbot and Costello interact with them; had the monsters been played for laughs it couldn’t work.
You know what I’d like to see? “Abbot and Costello Meet Alien Vs. Predator”! Erik Burnham, you have your assignment. Can you draw that up before MicroCon?
I think that Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein is probably the best of all the movies they made together. I love the comedy team, bar none–even Martin and Lewis did not come close in my mind.
One of the best scenes has to be Costello seeing the candle on top of the casket moving back and forth as Dracula opens and closes it. Costello’s inability to articulate his friend’s name is a classic comedy moment.
I also love how they take the famous ‘death’ scenes from the actual horror movies and incorporate them into the movie’s climactic ending. Congrats on getting a copy in DVD–I’m jealous.:)
Hutch,
Enough already with the Amazon links. You laying them on thick as if it has become a cottage industry.
Hutch replies: It’s not like I’m linking to everything under the sun; I link to stuff I am talking about anyway. If I was linking to Shakira albums and Water-piks, then it would be blatant ads. In fact, I don’t even capitalize on all of the opportunities to just promote the heck out of geek films like when Star Wars III came out on DVD. I probably could make more money that way, but I don’t really have much to say about them.
Until Best Buy approached me to run an ad for their new online trailer (and I watched the trailer and found it entertaining), I hadn’t ever run ads to pay for the site. I only link to Fanzing’s T-shirts, comic trades and movies of interest. Or do you want me to drop the Amazon links and just run crap banners and Gooooogle ads on the top, side and bottom of the site like most every blog out there?
In any case, people must find the links useful because every now and then they buy something. Given that it’s on a site that costs me around a hundred bucks a year, and Amazon links bring in at least something to balance that, I think it’s worth it.