John Grant

Фильмы

Love 600
Geschäftsmann
Eva (Iris Berben) is the object of rich Sugar Daddy's (János Gönczöl) affection. But while he showers her with gifts, she wants someone younger -- namely Erich (Jochen Richter), who's more her style. Learning that Eva has left, Sugar Daddy sends his chauffeur, Theo (Mogens von Gadow), to find her and Erich.
Womaneater
Rescue Party Leader (uncredited)
A mad scientist captures women and feeds them to a flesh-eating tree, which in turn gives him a serum that helps bring the dead back to life.
Эбботт и Костелло встречают мумию
Screenplay
Пит и Фредди - неудачливые охотники за сокровищами, путешествуют по Египту. Потратив все деньги, они отправляются на поиски работы, чтобы достать немного денег для возвращения в США. Пит слышит, как доктор Густав Зумер ищет «двух надежных помощников», которые помогли бы ему транспортировать мумию принцессы Кларис в США. Фредди и Пит даже не подозревают, что злоумышленники во главе с мадам Ронтру решают украсть мумию и драгоценности, включающие священный медальон, обвитый вокруг ее шеи. Другая группа состоит из почитателей культа фараона во главе с верховным жрецом Симу и стремится сохранить своего гуру в Египте. Они хотят овладеть телом принцессы Кларис, чтобы вернуть его на место. По дороге доктор Зумер и другие археологи обнаружены мертвыми, а мумия исчезает...
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Writer
Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.
Fireman Save My Child
Screenplay
Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.
Эбботт и Костелло встречают доктора Джекилла и мистера Хайда
Screenplay
Эбботт и Костелло, два неуклюжих американских полицейских, находящиеся по обмену в Лондоне, охотятся за мистером Хайдом — монстром, который вселяет ужас в жителей города.
Эбботт и Костелло отправляются на Марс
Screenplay
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.
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
Writer
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.
Abbott and Costello Christmas Show
Writer
Christmas themed episode of the colgate comedy hour.
Sailor Beware
Additional Dialogue
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps trying so that he can impress women. Melvin, is allergic to women's cosmetics and his doctor prescribed ocean travel, so he decided to join the navy.
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Screenplay
Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.
Comin' Round the Mountain
Additional Dialogue
Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, Squeeze-box McCoy, had treasure hidden in the hills of Kentucky, which they go to find.
Эббот и Костелло встречают человека-невидимку
Screenplay
Лу Франсис и Бад Александер - начинающие частные детективы, только закончившие спецшколу. Боксёр Томми Нельсон становится их первым клиентом. Он сбежал из тюрьмы, куда его посадили по ложному обвинению в убийстве своего менеджера. Нельсон просит приятелей сопроводить его к своей невесте, Хелен. Дело в том, что её дядя, доктор Филип Грэй, изобрёл «сыворотку невидимости», которую боксёр хочет себе ввести, чтобы, воспользовавшись невидимостью, найти настоящего убийцу и доказать свою невиновность.
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
Screenplay
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid. Bits include Lou's mirage sightings, one a New York newsboy ("they gave me a bad corner").
Эбботт и Костелло встречают убийцу Бориса Карлоффа
Screenplay
В отеле, где работают Эбботт и Костелло, совершается убийство. Все улики указывают на Костелло, который решает провести собственное расследование и доказать властям свою невиновность.
Mexican Hayride
Screenplay
Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.
Эбботт и Костелло встречают Франкенштейна
Screenplay
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.
The Noose Hangs High
Writer
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.
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap
Screenplay
Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.
Buck Privates Come Home
Screenplay
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.
The Time of Their Lives
Additional Dialogue
Two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War return to 20th century New England to retieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence.
The Naughty Nineties
Producer
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.
The Naughty Nineties
Screenplay
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.
Here Come the Co-eds
Associate Producer
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.
Here Come the Co-eds
Screenplay
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.
Lost in a Harem
Screenplay
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
In Society
Producer
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly
In Society
Screenplay
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly
Hit the Ice
Screenplay
Flash Fulton (Bud Abbott) and Weejie McCoy (Lou Costello) take pictures of a bank robbery. Lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers and accompanied by Dr. Bill Elliott (Patric Knowles) and Peggy Osborn (Elyse Knox), they also meet old friend Johnny Long (Johnny Long) and his band and singer Marcia Manning (Ginny Simms). Dr. Elliott and Peggy are being held in a remote cabin by the robbers, but Weejie rescues them by turning himself into a human snowball that becomes an avalanche that engulfs the crooks.
Corregidor
Calm Soldier at Barricade
A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick, injured and wounded as American and Filipino troops desperately try to beat back a ferocious Japanese attack.
It Ain't Hay
Screenplay
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
Who Done It?
Screenplay
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.
Pardon My Sarong
Screenplay
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.
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Screenplay
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Keep 'Em Flying
Screenplay
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.
Hold That Ghost
Screenplay
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
In the Navy
Screenplay
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using an alias, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and revealing his identity to the world. Aboard the Alabama, Tommy meets up with Smoky and Pomeroy, who help hide him from Dorothy, who hatches numerous schemes in an attempt to photograph Tommy/Russ being a sailor.