The Abbott & Costello Show: Who's On First? VHS
Guest stars include Lon Chaney, Jr. and Sid Fields.
Legends Of Comedy: Abbott & Costello Gift Set VHS
Their slapstick and snappy patter earned them the title of "Legends of Comedy," and you'll see why with this collector's set that includes "Here Come the Co-Eds," "Hit the Ice," "Hold That Ghost," "The Naughty Nineties," "One Night in the Tropics," "Pardon My Sarong," "The Time of Their Lives" and "Who Done It?," plus the bonus tape "Abbott & Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld."
One Night In The Tropics(1940) VHS
Abbott and Costello's screen debut finds them as detectives investigating an insurance scam involving a bride-to-be who runs off with her insurance salesman on their wedding day. Bud and Lou use some of their favorite routines in this musical-comedy that features a score by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II and Dorothy Fields. With Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Robert Cummings. 82 min.
Keep 'Em Flying(1941) VHS
Take off for laughs with Abbott and Costello as the duo play would-be pilots who get mixed up with stunt pilot Dick Foran and Martha Raye (in a dual role). High-flying comedy also includes musical numbers like "I'm Looking for the Boy with the Wistful Eyes" and "Pig Foot Pete." 86 min.
In The Navy(1941) VHS
After wrecking the Army in "Buck Privates," Abbott and Costello set sail for seafaring silliness in this service comedy. Joining them on board for laughter and musical numbers are Dick Powell, Shemp Howard and The Andrews Sisters. 85 min.
Buck Privates(1941) VHS
Boot camp becomes a course in basic comedy training, thanks to Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the team's first starring film, when they join spoiled rich man Lee Bowman and ex-valet Alan Curtis as reluctant draftees. The Andrews Sisters also get in on the fun, singing "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Bounce Me Brother with a Solid Four." With Shemp Howard. 84 min.
Hold That Ghost!(1941) VHS
There are high spirits when Abbott and Costello find themselves trapped in a haunted house along with a cast of eccentrics that includes health nut Richard Carlson, impresario Mischa Auer, and radio "screamer" Joan Davis. 86 min.
Pardon My Sarong(1942) VHS
Chicago bus drivers Abbott and Costello take a really wrong turn when their involvement with a wealthy playboy winds up taking them to the South Seas and into a den of jewel thieves. Robert Paige, Lionel Atwill, Virginia Bruce, William Demarest and The Ink Spots co-star. 83 min.
Ride 'Em Cowboy(1942) VHS
"City slickers" Abbott and Costello wind up working as comic cowhands on a frontier dude ranch in this song-filled gagfest. Highlights include guest star Ella Fitzgerald singing "A Tisket, A Tasket" and a skit with Lou facing constant interruptions while trying to sleep. With Anne Gwynne, Johnny Mack Brown. 86 min.
Who Done It?(1942) VHS
Would you believe Abbott and Costello? What the pair do in this comic mystery is portray private eyes while they ``help'' the police catch a radio executive's killer. Frantic Bud and Lou farce co-stars William Bendix, Louise Albritton, Shemp Howard. 75 min.
Rio Rita(1942) VHS
Lively musical comedy with Abbott and Costello trying to thwart a Nazi spy staying at the Western-styled resort where they work. Kathryn Grayson, John Carroll and Tom Conway co-star; songs include "Sweetheart We Need Each Other" and "Long Before You Came Along." Based on a play and a 1929 Wheeler and Woolsey film. 91 min.
Hit The Ice(1943) VHS
The laughs snowball when Abbott and Costello get suckered into pulling off a bank heist, and then must track down gang boss Sheldon Leonard before the cops track them down! 89 min.
It Ain't Hay(1943) VHS
When cab driver Lou Costello accidentally kills an old man's horse by feeding it candy, he and pal Bud Abbott try to find a replacement steed. The animal they "pick up" at a racetrack, however, is a champion racer named Tea Biscuit, in this riotous comedy based on a Damon Runyon story. With Cecil Kellaway, Eugene Pallette, Shemp Howard. 79 min.
In Society(1944) VHS
Inept plumbers Abbott and Costello are accidentally invited to a high society bash and are mistaken as hoity-toity members of the social elite in this farce featuring memorable slapstick stuff, funny dialogue and a great chase sequence. With Marion Hutton, Kirby Grant, Arthur Treacher. 84 min.
Lost In A Harem(1944) VHS
Abbott and Costello are magicians stranded in a desert kingdom ruled by an evil sheik who are called on to help a dashing prince regain the throne. Marilyn Maxwell, John Conte and Jimmy Dorsey and his Orchestra are featured, along with an elaborate "Scheherazade" ballet segment and A&C's "Pokomoko" rendition of the famous "Niagara Falls" vaudeville skit. 80 min.
The Naughty Nineties(1945) VHS
As comics on board a paddlewheel showboat, Abbott and Costello come to the aid of their boss when he loses the ship to some shady gamblers in a song-filled ``Gay '90s'' comedy that features the only big screen appearance of the team's famed ``Who's on First?'' routine. With Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson. 76 min.
Here Come The Co-Eds(1945) VHS
Funny Abbott and Costello effort with Bud and Lou as caretakers at an all-girl college who go to hilarious lengths to save the school when it's slated to close because of financial trouble. One of the highlights: a wrestling match between Bud and the Masked Marvel (actually the film's bad guy: Lon Chaney, Jr.). With Peggy Ryan, Martha O'Driscoll. 90 min.
Abbott And Costello In Hollywood(1945) VHS
Bud and Lou are a barber and porter in the movie capital who decide they can make more money by becoming "agents to the stars" and try to get their client, singer Robert Stanton, into a musical film. Cameos by Lucille Ball, Mike Mazurki, Dean Stockwell. 83 min.
The Time Of Their Lives(1946) VHS
Considered by many to be their best film, this offbeat Abbott and Costello entry has Lou playing a ghost wrongly accused of treason during the Revolutionary War. Along with fellow spectre Marjorie Reynolds, he must get the new owners of the mansion they haunt to clear their names. Bud co-stars as Lou's 18th-century rival and a 20th-century psychologist. 82 min.
Little Giant(1946) VHS
A different kind of Abbott and Costello outing with Lou as the star, playing a vacuum cleaner merchant determined to make it as a successful door-to-door salesman in order to earn enough to marry his sweetheart. Bud plays two parts: Lou's boss and the company's president. With Brenda Joyce, Jacqueline De Wit and Marx Brothers foil Margaret Dumont. 91 min.
The Wistful Widow Of Wagon Gap(1947) VHS
Fun on the frontier with Abbott and Costello as salesmen who accidentally get involved in a gunfight, with Lou being charged with caring for the dead man's family. Since to kill Costello would mean taking on the unruly brood, he becomes the most feared man in town and the new sheriff! Marjorie Main matches the boys laugh for laugh in the title role. 78 min.
Buck Privates Come Home(1947) VHS
The problems of homecoming G.I.s were spoofed in this sequel to Abbott and Costello's first starring film, as the boys try to sneak a French war orphan into America and find that their old sergeant is now their neighborhood cop! With Nat Pendleton, Beverly Simmons. 77 min.
Mexican Hayride(1948) VHS
The Cole Porter Broadway musical was stripped of its score by Universal and turned into a comedy for stars Abbott and Costello, as a stock scheme sends the duo south of the border for laughs amidst the bullfights and senoritas. With Virginia Grey, Luba Malina. 77 min.
Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein(1948) VHS
Universal tossed their most popular ghouls--Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's Monster--in this comedic monster mash, with Abbott and Costello trying to dodge Bela Lugosi (as Dracula), who wants to put Lou's brain inside the Monster's head. With Lon Chaney, Jr., Glenn Strange. 83 min.
The Noose Hangs High(1948) VHS
Abbott and Costello play a pair of window washers who are mistaken for gamblers and ripped off for $50,000 from a group of thugs. Caper comedy features the sort of hilarious hijinks you'd expect from Bud and Lou, along with their classic "Mudder and Fodder" routine. 77 min.
Africa Screams(1949) VHS
Mistaken for great hunters and shanghaied to Africa, Abbott and Costello lead crooks on a silly safari for hidden diamonds. Lots of bungles in the jungle, with guest stars like Max and Buddy Baer, Frank Buck and Clyde Beatty, and Shemp Howard and Joe Besser. 79 min.
Abbott And Costello Meet The Killer, Boris Karloff(1949) VHS
Funny and suspenseful outing for Bud and Lou casts them as a pair of hotel employees determined to discover why corpses keep popping up around the premises. Is supposed swami Karloff really the killer...or is it someone else? 84 min.
Africa Screams [DVD](1949) DVD
Mistaken for great hunters and shanghaied to Africa, Abbott and Costello lead crooks on a silly safari for hidden diamonds. Lots of bungles in the jungle, with guest stars like Max and Buddy Baer, Frank Buck and Clyde Beatty, and Shemp Howard and Joe Besser. 79 min.
Abbott And Costello In The Foreign Legion(1950) VHS
Wrestling promoters Abbott and Costello leave their Brooklyn home in search of a missing grappler and are enlisted into the French Foreign Legion after they get involved with a sexy spy. While making mincemeat of the Legion, the boys discover that their sergeant is in cahoots with an evil sheik. Walter Slezak, Patricia Medina, Tor Johnson co-star. 80 min.
Abbott And Costello Meet The Invisible Man(1951) VHS
"Private eye school" graduates Bud and Lou are hired by a boxer to help clear him of a murder rap put on him by a crooked promoter, but it takes a doctor's invisibility serum and a turn in the ring by Costello to bring the crooks to justice in this laughfest. Arthur Franz, Sheldon Leonard also star. 82 min.
Comin' Round The Mountain(1951) VHS
Wacky comedy meets hillbilly farce and some lively singing in this Abbott and Costello romp in which the fellows search for gold in backwoods Kentucky and get involved with feuding families and a love potion. Dorothy Shay, Kirby Grant also star. 77 min.
Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd(1952) VHS
A mix-up between a love letter and a treasure map has waiters Abbott and Costello on the wrong end a cutlass and at the "mercy" of notorious pirate Charles Laughton in this slapstick swashbuckler. Fran Warren and A&C TV foil Hillary Brooke also star. 70 min.
Jack And The Beanstalk [DVD](1952) DVD
Bud and Lou risk certain death to rescue a beautiful princess from the giant and bring back the hen that lays golden eggs in this musical, magical treatment of the classic fairy tale. Buddy Baer, Dorothy Ford also star. 78 min.
Lost In Alaska(1952) VHS
After saving a gold prospector from taking his own life, Abbott and Costello go way up North to Alaska in order to help the prospector keep his $2 million fortune away from a devious saloon owner. A wild dogsled chase highlights this funny A&C outing. Tom Ewell, Mitzi Green and Bruce Cabot also star. 87 min.
Jack And The Beanstalk(1952) VHS
Bud and Lou risk certain death to rescue a beautiful princess from the giant and bring back the hen that lays golden eggs in this musical, magical treatment of the classic fairy tale. Buddy Baer, Dorothy Ford also star. 78 min.
Abbott And Costello Go To Mars(1953) VHS
The laughs are out of this world as Abbott and Costello accidentally blast off in a spaceship, land in New Orleans, where they're confronted by some crooks, then take off again to the gal-populated planet of Venus (but not Mars). With Martha Hyer, Jack Kruschen and, in a small role, Anita Ekberg. 77 min.
Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde(1953) VHS
Bud Abbott is Slim and Lou Costello is Tubby, two American cops sent to London who find themselves in the throes of terror when they become mixed up with an equal rights leader (Helen Wescott), her reporter boyfriend (Craig Stevens) and the menacing Dr. Jekyll (Boris Karloff). 77 min.
Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy [DVD](1955) DVD
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello get wrapped up in riotous comedy when they head to Egypt in search of hidden treasure and have a close encounter with Kharis, the living mummy. Marie Windsor, Richard Deacon, Michael Ansara co-star. 90 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English mono, French; Subtitles: English; scene access.
Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy(1955) VHS
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello get wrapped up in riotous comedy when they head to Egypt in search of hidden treasure and have a close encounter with Kharis, the living mummy. Marie Windsor, Richard Deacon, Michael Ansara co-star. 90 min.
Abbott And Costello Meet The Keystone Kops(1955) VHS
Abbott and Costello are duped into purchasing a ramshackle silent film studio and head from Hollywood to New York to catch the culprit. Wacky car chases, custard pies and zany jokes populate the slapstick proceedings. With Fred Clark, Maxie Rosenbloom, Lynn Bari and Mack Sennett. 79 min.
Dance With Me Henry(1956) VHS
Abbott and Costello's final film together mixes slapstick and sentiment, as Bud and Lou run an amusement park while playing guardians to a group of orphans for whom a social worker is seeking a permanent home. Mary Wickes, Rusty Hamer co-star. 79 min.