{"id":31091,"date":"2022-12-08T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31091"},"modified":"2022-12-08T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T13:47:22","slug":"abbott-and-costello-meet-frankenstein-1948-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31091","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein&#8221; (1948) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z120822zview_acmeetfrankenstein.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"759\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein <\/strong><\/em>(1948)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Charles Barton<\/strong>\u00a0 (<strong>Walter Lantz<\/strong> directed the animation sequences)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Robert Lees, Frederic I. Rinaldo, John Grant<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Jane Randolph, Frank Ferguson<\/strong> and <strong>Bobby Barber<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Jeepers! The creepers are after Bud and Lou!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chick Young (Abbott) and Wilbur Gray (Costello) work at a shipping company.\u00a0 They receive a call from Larry Talbot (Chaney). Crates scheduled for delivery to <em>McDougal&#8217;s House of Horrors<\/em> contain the real Dracula and Frankenstein monsters!\u00a0 Unfortunately before Talbot gets them the message, he transforms into a werewolf.\u00a0 Chick and Wilbur deliver the crates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Talbot shows up, he convinces Chick and Wilbur that Dracula and the Frankenstein monster are real! Meanwhile, Dracula plans to place Wilbur&#8217;s brain in the monster.\u00a0 Soon we have Abbott &amp; Costello, Frankenstein, Dracula and the Wolfman in a battle royal with the winners being the audience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein<\/em> is a perfect example of how horror and comedy can work together seamlessly.\u00a0 We get Abbott and Costello&#8217;s verbal comedy and sight gags.\u00a0 Costello dealing with a lady who wants her bag from a cart full of luggage is classic.\u00a0 The Boys&#8217; interactions with the monsters at the castle is priceless.\u00a0 Having Lugosi recreate his signature role is a plus (and only the second time that Bela Lugosi played Dracula in movies).\u00a0 Watch, I mean listen for a Vincent Price cameo at the end!\u00a0 <em>Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein\u00a0<\/em>is my all-time favorite Abbott and Costello movie and one that I can re-watch anytime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein<\/em> <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z120822zview_acmeetfrankenstein2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Director: Charles Barton\u00a0 (Walter Lantz directed the animation sequences) Screenplay: Robert Lees, Frederic I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31205,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31091\/revisions\/31205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}