Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

AKA: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Film details

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Year1948
CountryUSA
GenreComedy
TypeMovie
Runtime83m
CastBud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert, Jane Randolph, Frank Ferguson, Charles Bradstreet

Review

"I remember the first movie I saw on television when I was, like, "Oh wow, you can do this in a movie?" was Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. That was my favorite movie when I was five years old. The Abbott and Costello stuff was funny, but when they were out of the room and the monsters would come on, they'd kill people! And the big brain operation when they take out Costello's brain and put in Frankenstein's Monster's brain was scary. Then this nurse gets thrown through a window! She's dead! When's the last time you saw anybody in a comedy-horror film actually kill somebody?... I remember thinking, these are the greatest movies ever made. You get a great comedy and a great horror movie - all together." - Quentin Tarantino, Interview Magazine

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