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Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

post #1 of 15
10/17/05 at 12:26pm
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Rented this Friday night to watch with my six year old daughter. She absolutely loved it. Watched it all weekend, making sure to rewind and repeat the Wolfman's transformation scenes over and over.
There is still hope for the future!
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post #2 of 15
10/17/05 at 12:48pm
Is this the one that ends with Vincent Price as The Invisible Man? If so, greatness.
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post #3 of 15
10/17/05 at 1:00pm
I don't think it does. I know it has Abbot and Costello working for a museum where Dracula and Frankenstein's monster are sent, and they work with Larry Talbot to defeat Dracula. It's easily one of the funniest movies I've ever seen though. Bob, keep up the good work.
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post #4 of 15
10/17/05 at 1:03pm
Just checked IMDB, it is this one. It's just a one line voice cameo at the end, but it sealed my love for this movie.
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post #5 of 15
10/17/05 at 1:05pm
Doh. I'll have to rewatch it again. It does contain one of my favourite line exchanges in the history of cinema.

Quote:
Larry Talbot: You don't understand. Every night when the moon is full, I turn into a wolf.
Wilbur: You and twenty million other guys!
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post #6 of 15
10/17/05 at 1:41pm
This movie is pure, unfiltered genius. I watched it recently with Agent Danger's eight-year-old sister, and she was just enraptured by it. I've always liked Abbott & Costello, and enjoy mos tof their movies, but something about this particular movie was alchemy. It just fires on all cylinders, and it's easily the best treatment most of those Universal monsters had recieved in years (and remains so to this day).
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post #7 of 15
10/17/05 at 2:00pm
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Originally Posted by g-dude
I watched it recently with Agent Danger's eight-year-old sister...
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Anyways, I wish these had been included on the Universal Legacy sets.
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post #8 of 15
10/17/05 at 2:06pm
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Originally Posted by Werbal_Kint
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Anyways, I wish these had been included on the Universal Legacy sets.
Danger was there too, ya perv.
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post #9 of 15
10/17/05 at 2:17pm
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My daughter liked the Invisible Man gag a lot. We bought that new Muppets DVD set and one of her favorite episodes is the Vincent Price one. She recognized the voice right away.

My six year old daughter recognized Vincent Price's voice. It was the proudest day of my life.
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post #10 of 15
10/17/05 at 2:22pm
You've got her on the right track. The trick is keeping her on it. Sounds like a Val Lewton marathon might be in order.
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post #11 of 15
10/17/05 at 3:32pm
You are so right! I've watched both of the Cat People movies and "I walked with a Zombie" with my daughters, and they loved them. I wasn't sure how they'd take to the restraint that all of those movies show, but they really appreciated them. And were scared by them too. My younger daughter came back from watching Disney's "Halloween Town" at one of her friends house, and shook her head at what her friends find scary. Unfortunately, she tried to enlighten her friend's mother about what we watch at home, in the hopes that they could watch some good horror too.
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post #12 of 15
10/17/05 at 11:56pm
The genius of the Abbot and Costello fllm is that they play the horror elements straight, and let the comedy come from Abbot and Costello's reaction to Frankenstein and Company.
"Ghostsbusters" does pretty much the same thing. Even the Sta Puft Marshmellow man follows that rule because it was created by the thoughts of one of the charecters.
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post #13 of 15
10/18/05 at 10:28am
I'm quite glad to read that you showed your daughter these movies. I have fond memories of watching these films with my mom and dad as a kid, and I really have to credit that as a big step into the larger realm of classic cinema. It gave me an appreciation of black and white movies that I probably would have missed out on otherwise, and it is cool to see people continuing that tradition. I have a feeling some day your daughter will be thanking you for sharing your love of movies with her.
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post #14 of 15
10/20/05 at 8:35am
I agree with what you say above. Playing the monsters straight was genius. It also worked great for 'Shaun of the Dead'. The Abbott & Costello Meets Frankenstein DVD is available and has a great behind the scenes piece on how the boys worked with Bela Lugosi (Dracula) and Glen Strange (The Frankenstein Monster). There is some classic stuff there and a DVD every Classic Monster fan should own.
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post #15 of 15
9/13/06 at 11:34am
Man- just started watching through the 3rd box set of those "The Best of Abbott & Costello" box sets they have (they each include 8 A&C movies.)

Fucking great stuff. I forget just how funny Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein is. There's so many little lines that had me cracking up.

And I finally saw A&C Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff for the first time. Not the best thing they've ever done, but Karloff is always amazing.

The 4th box set in the series has The Invisible Man, I think I'm going to have to pick it up just for that.
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