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The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 4
The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello : Volume 4 features six classics from the most popular comedy team of all time. The legendary duo pair up with the Keystone Kops and more of Universal's classic monsters including the Mummy in their very last feature film. Including insightful documentaries that give an in-depth look at the legacy of Bud and Lou as well as the making of their films with the Universal classic monsters, this unforgettable collection showcases the best of what has kept...
The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 3
The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello : Volume 3 features eight classics starring the most popular comedy team of all time. Having been stars of vaudeville and radio, the duo set out to dazzle audiences on the silver screen in nearly 40 feature films. Join Bud and Lou as they meet up with Universal's classic monsters including Frankenstein and Dracula, head to Mexico, get lost in Alaska and find themselves in outer space!
The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 2
The most popular comedy team of all time is back in The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 2 featuring eight hilarious films. The wildly popular comic duo has entertained audiences since 1931, conquering vaudeville, radio and the silver screen in nearly 40 films. Showcasing some of the pair's funniest moments including the complete version of their signature routine "Who's on First?" as well as films such as In Society and The Time of Their Lives , this collection illustrates why...
The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 1
Get ready for big laughs with Abbott and Costello, undeniably the most popular comedy team of all time, in this hilarious collection featuring eight of their classic films. The wildly popular comic duo has entertained audiences since 1931, conquering vaudeville, radio and the silver screen in nearly 40 films. Enjoy side-splitting hits like Buck Privates and Hold That Ghost in this collection of eight full-length features. The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 1 will have you laughing...
The Naughty Nineties
Comedy legends Bud Abbot and Lou Costello perfected their most famous routine ever, "Who's on First?" in The Naughty Nineties . Set in the 1890s, a ham actor (Abbott) and his dim-witted assistant (Costello) set sail on the Mississippi showboat, the River Queen. When the boat docks in St. Louis, the boys try to rescue Captain Sam (Henry Travers) from a poker game with three card sharks but are too late. The gamblers win a controlling interest in the River Queen and – to Captain Sam's dismay –...
Buck Privates
Comedy legends Bud Abbott and Lou Costello cemented their place in film history with the hilarious wartime comedy classic Buck Privates . After spending years on stage in burlesque and on radio perfecting classic routines such as “Who’s on First?,” the duo transitioned to motion pictures at Universal in1940. In their first leading roles, Bud and Lou play con artists who accidentally enlist in the U.S. Army to avoid going to jail. Making matters worse, their no-nonsense drill sergeant turns out...
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Abbott and Costello portray private detectives in this fast-paced comic thriller. Recent detective school graduates Bud and Lou are minding their new business when accused killer Tommy Nelson (Arthur Franz) bursts into their office. Proclaiming his innocence, he convinces the two to get him to his beautiful fiancee Helen (Nancy Guild). Just as the police arrive to investigate, Tommy injects himself with invisibility serum being developed by Helen's uncle. Nelson convinces Lou to go undercover...
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Pete and Freddie (Abbott and Costello) overhear a Cairo archaeologists's chatter about discovering a legendary mummy and decide to apply as chaperones for the corpse's journey to America. But when they arrive at the archaeologists' home, he has been murdered, the mummy seems to have have disappeared, and to top it all off, the boys become owners of a sacred medallion that holds the key to the location of an ancient buried treasure that many would kill for! Learning that the medallion is cursed...
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Abbott and Costello, as railroad baggage clerks, receive a strange shipment - the last remains of Dracula and Frankenstein's monster. But this deadly duo is still very much alive. So when the shipment arrives at the House of Horrors, the Monsters are not in their crates but have disappeared to a secret hideaway island. Blamed for the disappearance, Abbott and Costello follow their trail to the island, where not only do they meet up with Dracula (Bela Lugosi) and the Monster (Glenn Strange), but...
It Ain't Hay
Comedy legends Bud Abbott and Lou Costello gallop their way to the racetrack in It Ain't Hay – a rare, early film based on a short story by Damon Runyon. When a taxi driver (Costello) unwittingly kills a carriage driver's elderly horse, he and his pal (Abbott) attempt to replace it by "borrowing" the famous racehorse Tea Biscuit. A reward for the stolen animal is announced, shifty Broadway locals, such as Umbrella Sam and Chauncey the Eye get involved, and the duo trots from one hilarious...