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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein(Movie, 1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 23min | Genres: Comedy, Horror
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet FrankensteinRating: 3.6/5 (with 118118 votes)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is a 1948 American horror comedy film directed by Charles Barton. The film features Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi) who has become partners with Dr. Sandra Mornay (Lenore Aubert), as Dracula requires a "simple, pliable" brain to reactivate Frankenstein's monster (Glenn Strange). Dracula discovers that the "ideal" brain belongs to Wilbur Grey (Lou Costello) who is wooed by Mornay to the operating table, despite the warnings of Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.). The film was developed and began being made against the wishes of Abbott and Costello, with Costello specifically not liking the script. The film was made under difficulty according to director Barton who found Abbott and Costello often absent or not working on the set. On the film's release, it was one o... ()
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About Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Plays in: London
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 17 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Serbian (SR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 08/22/1958 (World premiere: 06/15/1948)
Director: Charles Barton
Producer: Robert Arthur
Screenwriter: Robert Lees, John Grant
Film Editor: Frank Gross
Director of Photography: Charles Van Enger
Composer: Frank Skinner
Production Designer: Hilyard M. Brown
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Abbott e Costello as Voltas com Fantasmas"
"Abbott e Costello contra Frankenstein"
"Às Voltas como Fantasma"
"Abbott and Costello meet the Ghost"
"でこぼこフランケンシュタインのまき"
"애보트와 코스텔로 2"
"Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"
Budget: 800,000 USD
Revenue: 4,812,444 USD (= 602%)
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:8215, Added: 02/18/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024