{"id":34988,"date":"2024-01-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34988"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T19:58:00","slug":"abbott-and-costello-meet-dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde-1953-starring-bud-abbott-lou-costello-boris-karloff-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=34988","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde&#8221; (1953) starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello &#038; Boris Karloff \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z011124zview_ac_drjmrh.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"378\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde <\/strong><\/em>(1953)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Charles Lamont<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Lee Loeb, John Grant; <\/strong>story by<strong> Sid Fields, Grant Garett;<\/strong>inspired by <em>The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde<\/em> by<strong> Robert Louis Stevenson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Helen Westcott, Reginald Denny, John Dierkes, Harry Cording <\/strong>and <strong>Craig Stevens.<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>The Laughs Are Twice as MONSTER-OUS as Ever Before!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A maniacal serial killer stalks the streets of London.\u00a0 Slim (Abbott) and Tubby (Costello), American cops sent over to study England&#8217;s police methods, are pulled into the case.<\/p>\n<p>Let the good times roll!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this version, Dr. Jekyll isn&#8217;t such a nice guy.\u00a0 In most outings, it isn&#8217;t until he becomes Mr. Hyde that he becomes evil.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Karloff appeared with Abbott and Costello four years earlier in <em>Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde <\/strong><\/em>(1953) earns 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.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\/2024\/z011124zview_ac_drjmrh2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) Director:\u00a0 Charles Lamont Screenplay: Lee Loeb, John Grant; story by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[17,53,63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","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\/34988","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=34988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34995,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34988\/revisions\/34995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}