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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
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| Part No: | B00005LC4C |
| Manufacturer: | Universal Studios |
| MFG Part: | MCAD20573D |
| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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After 15 years of hit movies for Universal Studios, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello left the studio in the twilight of their partnership with the last of their monster comedies. Decked out in desert safari gear, the boys go looking for a job with an Egyptologist and wind up in the middle of a conspiracy concerning the murdered professor, an ancient mummy, and a magical medallion that, true to form, bumbling Costello manages to eat for dinner. Marie Windsor, the boss lady of a gang of treasure hunting crooks, dresses in a harem outfit to vamp for our chubby little hero, and the eternally stiff Richard Deacon hilariously plays the leader of an Egyptian mummy cult like a high school principal decked out for Halloween. Directed by longtime collaborator Charles Lamont, it's a typical Abbott and Costello farce with disappearing corpses, mistaken identities, and wacky word plays ("Take your pick" riffs on "Who's on first" with garden tools). While not as clever or spirited as their original monster mash
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the vaudeville veterans are still masters of the double take and fast-talk patter, and the picture climaxes with a screwball chase that involves not one, not two, but three mummies skittering through the phoniest looking pyramid this side of community theater. You were expecting realism? The boys appeared together once more on film, in
Dance with Me, Henry, and then split up.
--Sean Axmaker
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/22/2006 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr
| abbot and costello meet the mummy | 2009-01-01 | 1 / 5 |
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| Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummythis is a terrible movie. the dialogue was inane, the slapstick was idiotic, drawn out and repetitive and the acting so wooden to the point where the only reason this sorry excuse for a movie was made was to capitalize and profit on the abbot and costello name. as opposed to the top quality of the characters, plot and monsters found in "abbot and costello meet frankenstein", this cheap rip-off doesn't even have a decent mummy character or any talented actors and special effects for that matter. if you must see this movie check it out from the library. buying or renting it is a waste of money. |
| Excellent! | 2008-11-30 | 5 / 5 |
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| Product was in great condition when received. Excellent on timing. Came in just in time for Halloween. |
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| Abbott and Costello have been a Halloween Tradition in our house. Good old Classic movie fun. always comes through with the quality, speed of delivery and customer service. |
| Short on laughs | 2008-10-04 | 2 / 5 |
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While in Egypt, Peter and Freddie (Abbott and Costello) get involved with a walking mummy, his cult followers, and a cursed medallion.
That's a pretty short summary, but honestly, that's all there is to this disappointing comedy. Abbott and Costello were past their prime in 1955 and the film shows it. The jokes aren't much unless you think endless punchlines with "mummy" instead of "mommy" and snake charmers with rubber snakes are funny. Abbott yells too much at Costello and they both are barely going through the motions; in fact, they call each other "Bud" and "Lou" throughout. The ridiculous casting of Richard Deacon ("Mel Cooley" in The Dick Van Dyke Show) and Michael Ansara (TV's "Cochise") as Egyptian mummy-worshippers makes the story even more far-fetched. It's about thirty minutes too long and plays like a bad SNL skit. Definitely not one of their best. |
| Great Movie | 2008-09-29 | 5 / 5 |
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| I searched for this movie in local stores and found nothing. I don't know why I bother looking anywhere other than . |
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