Joe Kirk

Featuring the routines that made them comedy legends like “Who’s On First?,” and “The Lemon Bit,” this digitally restored and re-mastered “Best Of” collection includes six of the Abbott and Costello Show’s most beloved episodes.

젊은 소설가 톰 개럿은 신문사 편집장의 딸인 수전과 약혼을 앞두고 있다. 톰은 새로운 소설을 집필하려고 결혼을 연기한다. 수전의 아버지인 오스틴 스펜서는 평소 파행적으로 법을 집행하고 용의자를 유죄 처리하던 검사를 미워한다. 어느 날 한 여인이 의문의 변사체로 발견되고, 스펜서는 톰에게 위험한 제안을 한다. 그 제안은 톰이 범인으로 가장하여 재판을 받은 후 진실을 폭로하여 세상을 발칵 뒤집어놓자는 것. 톰은 잠시 주저하지만 이내 범인의 인상착의를 토대로 톰은 범인으로 위장하기 위해서 새로운 차를 구입하고 옷을 입는다, 그가 탔다던 자동차와 비슷한 차를 구입하여 밤거리를 돌아다닌다. 그리고 한 여인을 차에 태우고 범행을 가장한다. 경찰은 곧바로 그를 구속 수사하고 검찰은 그를 유력한 용의자로 지목한다. 그와 함께 사건을 꾸미던 신문사 편집장은 이 모든 것을 사진으로 남긴다. 후일 진실을 폭로하기 위한 증거인 것이다. 재미난 것은 이 사진은 필름이 아니라 폴라로이드라는 사실이다. 즉 원본이 없는 세상에서 하나뿐인 증거물인 것인데...

In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.

Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished.

Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd's treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate's island.

Bud & Lou get jobs in Mr. Fields' Drugstore. Originally filmed as the first episode of the Abbott and Costello TV show, it was released on film and shown theatrically in certain markets.

After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon disppointed, however, when he turns out to be an erratic, immature playboy. Opposites attract, of course, but not without sub-plots that touch on competitiveness within marriage and responsibility.

수하물 보관소에서 일하는 칙과 윌버는 서로 원수 같은 친구 사이다. 윌버는 런던의 탤봇으로부터 맥두걸의 공포의 집으로 온 수하물을 배달하지 말라는 전화를 받고 의아해하지만, 맥두걸이 찾아와 수하물을 배달하고 만다. 나무상자를 연 윌버는 드라큘라와 프랑켄슈타인의 괴물이 걸어 나가는 모습을 보고 기겁한다. 맥두걸은 유럽에서 사온 물건이 없어졌다며, 칙과 윌버를 경찰에 고발하고, 보험회사는 조사관, 조앤을 내세워 수사를 시작하고, 런던의 탤봇은 자신이 늑대인간이라며 드라큘라의 계획을 막아야한다고 주장한다. 일부러 윌버에게 접근해 여자친구가 된 샌드라 박사는 드라큘라와 손을 잡고, 프랑켄슈타인의 괴물을 부활시키기 위해, 윌버의 뇌를 이식하고자 한다. 윌버는 샌드라와 가장 무도회를 가려고 하는데, 칙과 조앤, 그리고 샌드라의 조수인 스티븐스 교수까지 함께 가게 된다. 윌버가 자꾸 괴물을 봤다고 하자, 샌드라는 수술 계획을 미루고, 드라큘라는 주변 사람들에게 최면을 걸어 자신의 명령대로 움직이게 한다. 윌버, 조앤, 스티븐스는 드라큘라의 성에 갇힌 미이라, 괴물, 늑대인간으로 변한 탤봇까지 얽히면서 수술실을 난장판으로 만들어, 무사히 탈출한다.

Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent two of his men to get the money back but they found out about it. So they try to mail to Craig but a mix up has the money sent somewhere else and the woman who got it spent it. Now Craig needs the money to pay off one of his clients.

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's a crackerjack salesman. This comedy is somewhat like "The Time of Their Lives," in that Abbott and Costello don't have much screen time together and there are very few vaudeville bits woven into the plot.

An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

Molly, her brother, Slats, and his pal, Oliver, are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.

프랑켄슈타인이 만든 괴물을 다시 살리고 싶은 욕망을 가진 과학자 니만은 죽은 시체를 이용해 실험한다는 이유로 마을 사람들에 의해 15년간 감옥에 갇히게 된다. 그리고 보통 사람의 몸을 갖길 소망하는 곱추 다니엘을 데리고 감옥을 탈출한다. 그는 그를 감옥에 있게 만든 사람들에게 복수하기 위해, 잠든 뱀파이어를 깨우고, 빙하에 냉동된 늑대 인간과 다니엘을 이용만 하는 니만은, 다니엘이 사랑했던 여인이 죽게 되자 위험에 빠지게 되는데...

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.

When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime suspect is murdered as well, and he finds himself framed for the crime. As more witnesses get murdered, he finds himself on the run from both the police and former Prohibition violators who seem to have found a new racket.

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder when the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes) at the office where she works, Berle overhears several men discussing the suicide of a coworker. Struck with a brilliant notion, Berle decides to confess to the murder of the dead man, certain that he'll be able to wriggle out of the situation and thereby have plenty of material for a story.

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.