Our A&C Film Collection

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ABBOTT AND COSTELLO - Movies Running time approx 78 mins each.
Click Picture To Open A&C Facts Section	One Night in the Tropics - 1940 This film was Abbott and Costello's stepping stone before starring in their own series of features. Although mainly a comedy/ love story, Bud and Lou steal the show. The boys are clumsy thugs hired to protect a love insurance policy investment. TV cut version.
Click Picture To Open A&C Facts Section	Buck Privates - 1941 Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown are street peddlers selling neck ties while constantly running from the police. To escape an officer they run into an army recruiting station. Through a misunderstanding, they are recruited into the U.S. Army. They are sent off to boot camp to find out their drill instructor is the cop who chased them into the recruiting station in the first place. The boys have a hilarious time getting through the army while at the same time frustrating their humorless drill instructor.
	Rio Rita - 1942 Doc and Wishey take a wrong turn somewhere and end up near the Mexican border. There they run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA through a hotel business. With the help of Rita, the daughter of the hotel owner, and her love interest Hecktor, they expose the Nazi-spies.
	Pardon My Sarong - 1942 Agly and Wellington are a couple of bus drivers who quickly get in trouble by tagging along with a playboy sailor. The boys become ship-mates to the playboy sailor and his love interest Susey. During a bad storm they become lost and find themselves on a tropical island inhabited by natives. There they find gem smugglers who don’t like strangers and try to protect their interests.
	Who Done it - 1942 Chick Larkin and Mervin Milgrim are soda jerks dreaming of becoming radio mystery writers. While trying to pitch their ideas at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder mystery when the station owner is killed during a broadcast. The boys take on the identity of real detectives to try to solve the mystery. They feel if they solve this mystery, that they will be seen as great mystery writers. Through good sleuth work, it is found that a spy has been placing secret messages in the radio broadcasts. The radio station puts on a false show to expose the real killer. Chick and Mervin end up on the roof of the radio station with the real killer and keep him busy until the authorities arrived.
	Lost in a Harem - 1944 The boys are entertainers, lost in mythical City in the East with beautiful singer, Marilyn Maxwell. A prince make a deal after they are thrown in jail for breaking the peace: They help him dethrone his wicked uncle and he'll give them lots of jewels and get them back home.
	Here Come the Co-eds - 1945 Molly, her brother, Slats (Abbott), and his pal, Oliver (Costello), are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another
	The Naughty Nineties - 1945 Dexter Broadhurst is a handsome stage actor and Sebastian Dinwiddle is a worker on a Mississippi river boat In the 1890s. Card sharks win the riverboat from Captain Sam Jackson in a card game and change it into a floating gambling house. The boys try to help the captain regain ownership of the boat by beating the card sharks at their own game.
	Little Giant - 1946 Benny Miller is a country bumpkin who wants to go to the big city and be a vacuum-cleaner salesman. He gets a job working for a company run by the crooked T.S. Chandler. To keep him under his thumb, T.S. Chandler convinces Benny that he's a crackerjack salesman.
	Buck Privates Come Home - 1947 The boys who enlisted in the army to get away from the cops in Buck Privates and found their nemesis patrolman, Nat Pendleton. Only Costello managed to smuggle in little Beverly Simmons, a French war orphan, in his duffel bag. Imagine going across the Atlantic without a change of clothes. Beverly's the company mascot and she's adopted Costello so Bud and Lou are going to adopt her. Of course they run into all kinds of problems with the army, with the police and with immigration. Then again their situations make for the plot of Buck Privates Come Hone. The original Buck Privates was as much musical as it was burlesque comedy. With the Andrews Sisters, Jane Frazee, there was not one dull moment in this film. For some reason the writers here did not include much of the classic comedy routines. There's only one here, the famous Left/Right routine with Costello getting all balled up with the word "right." No musical numbers except the men singing about how they're going home. Lots of physical comedy though, depending as much on Nat Pendleton's reactions as well as Costello's knack for getting into situations that no one else could possibly. And we can't forget Donald MacBride who has the best slow burn in films save for Edgar Kennedy. The climax is Costello's wild ride in a midget racing car which is well staged and loaded with belly laughs.
	The Noose Hangs High - 1948 "Ted"&"Tommy" (Bud & Lou) are two window washers who are mistaken by a crooked bookie to deliver some bogus cash to a mobster. Mr.Calila owes the monies to a successful gambler. The boys sense that they're in trouble again and place the monies into an envelope full of coupons to a wealthy dowager. Unfortunately Ms.Corby's former secretary, Kate Downs gets the envelope and spends the cash thus putting all three of our heroes in great danger.
	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.
	Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstien - 1948 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 Béla 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.
	Abbott & Costello Meet The Killer: Boris Karloff - 1949 Freddie Phillips is a bellhop at the Lost Caverns Hotel and finds himself the main suspect of a murder. Hotel detective Casey Edwards looks to help Freddie clear himself. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer.
	Abbott & 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.
	Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy - 1955 In Egypt Peter and Freddie find the archaeologist Dr. Zoomer murdered before they can return to America. A medallion leads them to a crypt where a revived mummy provides the terror.
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ABBOTT AND COSTELLO - TV Shows Running time approx 25 mins each
	Episode #1 The Drugstore - Bud and Lou do the Jonah and Whale routine on stage. Later, Mike wants to arrest the boys for non payment of their rent, but when Bud convinces Fields he'll never get his back rent paid if they go to jail, Fields get the boys jobs at his brother's drug-store where calamity ensues.
	Episode #2 The Dentist's Office - Lou has tooth ache, so Bud takes him to near sighted dentist. Remake of portion of "Noose hangs high", but with Sid Fields as the crazy dentist. Later, Lou tries unsuccessfully to pull the tooth out by tying a piece of string, one end to the tooth, the other end to a cat and has a dog chase the cat round the garden. After popping into Fields' drugstore for more mayhem, Bud convinces Lou to get arrested so they will pull his tooth out for free. But every time Lou breaks the law, he emerges as hero.
	Episode #5 Lou's Birthday - Lou throws a birthday party for himself, but nearly poisons his guests when he puts ant paste on his snacks instead of anti pesto. Bud throws him out and Lou consoles himself by ordering a giant decorated cake.
	Episode #6 Alaska Lou's uncle struck it gold in Alaska and so the boys must find some money to go pay him a visit. They walk into a bank after it has been held up and pose as tellers when Hillary comes in to make a deposit. After the alarm goes off, they get into trouble with Mike. In the second half along with the moustache and the boys do a long, but enjoyable scene with Bud explaining about mining terms and then getting his feet stuck in a bowl cos Lou accidentally put cement in there. Fields and then Mike attempt to free Bud.
	Episode #10 Charity Bazaar - Bud and Lou participate in Hilary's charity bazaar raising money with the "shell game". Lou blows his money at the kissing booth.
	Episode #11 Western Story - Bud and Lou accept Hilary's invitation to visit her uncles B-Bar-Bop ranch.
	Episode #18 Getting a Job - Bud and Lou are hired to deliver hats to the Susquehanna Hat Company on Floogle street and encounter several lunatics on the way. Also, Stinky attempts to kill Lou by backing him into traffic. The 'Loafing' routine is performed.
	Episode #19 Bingo Mike the Cop informs Lou the he must obtain a license for his pet chimp, and Lou accidentally applies for a marriage license.
	Episode #20 Hilary's Birthday - While shopping for Hillary's birthday present Lou nearly destroys a grocery store. Later , at her party Mr Fields becomes upset about the noise.
	Episode #26 Safari - Hillary takes care of Bingo, who is sick. The whole gang travels to Africa to find his parents. Lou tangles with a gorilla.
	Episode #27 The paper hangers - To pay back rent, Bud and Lou wallpaper an apartment. Later as waiters in a restaurant, they brawl with hoodlums.
	Episode #46 Well oiled - Fields is been sued by a woman over breach of promise, and he might end up losing his apartment house. In order to help him, Lou dresses up a rich Texan, to woo this woman away from Fields. But he accidentally woos the fiancée of Mike the Cop instead!
	Episode #47 Pigeon - Bud and Lou's beautiful next door neighbor uses Lou as a decoy to help break up with her mobster boyfriend.
	Episode #49 Private Eye - Lou, through a correspondence school has graduated as a private eye. First he must learn how to use the handcuffs, but he accidentally handcuffs himself to Bud, and the key is accidentally thrown through a small hole in the wall. Lou accidentally drops a lit match through down that hole, nearly causing the whole place to catch fire! Later, Lou learns a young lady has been left a spooky house in her will - with bonds hidden in there - but she's afraid to enter the house to look for them. The house was once occupied by her eccentric uncle who has left gadgets in there. The boys enter the house to locate the bonds where they come across an assortment of booby traps and strange goings on.
	Episode #50 Beauty Contest Bud and Lou judge the "Miss Mud Turtle" beauty pageant for the Fraternal Order of Mud Turtles. Pressure is applied to sway their vote.

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO - Shorts Running time approx 10 mins each
	Oh My Achin Tooth
	Champs of the chase
	No Indians Please
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