Mr. Baccigaloupe
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.
Clothing Store Clerk
Газетный издатель, желая показать несостоятельность осуждения на основе косвенных доказательств, решает найти добровольца, который согласится быть обвиненным в преступлении, которого он не совершал, с тем, чтобы после вынесения приговора привести доказательства его невиновности…
Luigi
In northwest Africa, a tribal leader tries to stir up a rebellion against the ruling powers.
Dr. Orvilla
Лестер и Орвилл случайно запускают ракету, предназначенную для полета на Марс. Вместо этого они попадают в Новый Орлеан на Марди Гра. Затем грабитель банков Магси и его приятель Гарри вынуждают их лететь на Венеру, где они встречают цивилизацию, полностью состоящую из женщин.
Flirtatious Pirate (uncredited)
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.
Drugstore Counter Customer
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.
Henchman
After two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide, they discover discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder.
Hotel Clerk
Успешный бизнесмен из Сан-Франциско Уолтер Уильямс с одобрения совета директоров покупает три завода в Денвере. Его любимая жена Ирэн из-за плохого самочувствия не может поехать с ним, но просит подвезти её двоюродного брата Джима. В дороге Джим, который на самом деле любовник Ирен, пытается убить Уолтера.
Process Server with Divorce Papers (uncredited)
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.
Man at Costume Party in Fez
Уилбур и Чик транспортируют в музей ужасов два больших ящика, в одном из которых находится тело Дракулы, а в другом - тело монстра, созданного доктором Франкенштейном. Люди решают воскресить двух чудовищ, однако Человек-волк, извечный враг этой парочки, решает им помешать.
Gangster (uncredited)
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.
Real Estate Salesman
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.
Salesman
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.
Gangster
An orphan girl lives with apparently kind uncle who turns out to be a murderer.
Croupier
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.
Honest Dan Murphy the Bookie
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.
Schwartz (uncredited)
Учёный Густав Ниманн восхищён трудами своего коллеги Виктора Франкенштейна и обещает сокамернику — горбуну Дэниэлу — новое здоровое тело, если им удастся покинуть застенки и найти рукописи Франкенштейна. Воспользовавшись случаем, они совершают побег и тут же убивают проезжавшего мимо некоего Лампини, колесящего по округе со своей передвижной «Комнатой ужасов». Ослеплённый жаждой мести, Ниманн направляется в город, где некогда его приговорили к тюремному сроку, чтобы не только совершить возмездие, но и возродить к жизни Человека-оборотня и чудовище Франкенштейна, похороненных под руинами лаборатории...
Ghost of Napoleon
A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.
Officer Solomon
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.
Dizzy's Fellow Henchman (as Joseph Kirk)
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.
Radio Technician (uncredited)
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.
Henchman with Tabor (uncredited)
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.
Pet Shop Owner (uncredited)
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Sailor
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.
Brownstone Heavy 3
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.
Camp Counselor
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.