Abbott und Costello treffen Frankenstein
Chuck und Wilbur müssen, zu ihrem Entsetzen, feststellen, das Dracula, das Frankenstein Monster und der Wolfsmenschen, sehr lebendig sind.Chuck und Wilbur müssen, zu ihrem Entsetzen, feststellen, das Dracula, das Frankenstein Monster und der Wolfsmenschen, sehr lebendig sind.Chuck und Wilbur müssen, zu ihrem Entsetzen, feststellen, das Dracula, das Frankenstein Monster und der Wolfsmenschen, sehr lebendig sind.
- Auszeichnungen
- 4 Gewinne & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt
- Lawrence Talbot
- (as Lon Chaney)
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- Waiter
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- Man at Costume Party
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- Photographer
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- London Policeman
- (Archivfilmmaterial)
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- Man at Costume Party in Fez
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- Harris - Insurance Man
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- The Invisible Man
- (Synchronisation)
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- Man at Costume Party
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- Woman at Baggage Counter
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Lugosi truly shows how wrong Universal was to treat him so badly over the years.He gives a wonderful perfomance with nice comedic touches.Chaney is excellent in "his baby" the Wolf Man.Strange is given a bit more to do as the monster rather than just lie around until the last five minutes.
Great fun for everybody!
To be honest, I am not a big fan of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello but this is a funny movie, considered their best by most critics and, for once, I agree with them. I mean, where else can you see The Wolf Man, Frankenstein and Dracula all together in the same film? Not only that, we get two of the original actors who actually played those roles: Lon Chaney (wolf man) and Bela Lugosi (Dracula).
The special-effects are terrible but, hey, the film is close to 60 years old. If you are going to see only one A-C film, this is the one you want to get.
Bud and Lou's misadventures unloading McDougal's crates is a great mix of laughs & chills where we get to see a variation of the "moving candle" bit, Dracula reviving the monster, and for the first time in any Universal picture the camera doesn't move or cut away as the vampire exits from his coffin. And Glenn Strange, looking rather gruesome in Westmore's best makeup work, seems creakier than ever before as the monster.
I have to mention one of my personal favorite Bud/Lou moments when they make their first trip to the island with Joan Raymond: Lou tells Bud in reference to Joan "she's mine too" then proceeds to dab his mouth with Bud's necktie.
While the mere presence of Abbott and Costello in this picture may turn the stomachs of many "horror purists", it's obvious that great care was taken by the filmmakers not to ridicule the monsters. Without the two comics, you would still have a standard Universal horror film. With them, it remains a movie that shows more skill & thought was put into it than the last "serious" monster film "House of Dracula" and I am personally glad that Universal didn't let the monsters die with that misfire.
As someone who grew up watching A&C Sundays at 11:30 AM in the NY area back when Cheech and Chong were the comedy team of the moment, it's great to revisit this one and see how well it all stands up. It's also nice to think, with all the personal sadness and cinematic dreck he was forced to go through, that Bela Lugosi managed to bat 1.000 in playing his greatest role, as he only played the Count in two film classics, this and "Dracula."
Playing the monsters straight probably was the best idea the filmmakers had, but there's other good stuff here. These guys were not resting on their laurels. The scenes with Chaney, the final chase, the dames (two for Lou, none for Bud), the music, all of it well-thought-out and very effective. Would the film have been better with Karloff than Strange as the Monster? Probably not, as the Monster is the least interesting character of the monster trio by necessity of plot (he's weak and needs to be continuously charged up by Drac, necessitating the immediate operation on Lou.) Karloff would have detracted from Lugosi's role more than adding anything of his own. Besides, Strange is very good.
Too bad Vincent Price couldn't make it when Bud and Lou went up against the Invisible Man for real two years later.
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- WissenswertesLou Costello didn't want to make the movie, declaring, "No way I'll do that crap. My little girl could write something better than this." A $50,000 advance in salary and the signing of director Charles Barton, the team's good friend and the man some call their best director, convinced him otherwise.
- PatzerAfter Wilbur knocks the bundles containing their masquerade costumes out of Chick's arms and tries to dance with him, Chick say's "Come on, pick up these bundles and get dressed." Wilbur strides out of the frame without his bundle but he has it in his hand as he strides into the next shot.
- Zitate
[last lines]
Wilbur Grey: And another thing Mr. Chick Young! The next time I tell you that I saw something when I saw it, you believe me that I saw it!
Chick Young: Oh relax. Now that we've seen the last of Dracula, the Wolf Man, and the Monster, there's nobody to frighten us anymore.
Invisible Man: Oh, that's too bad. I was hoping to get in on the excitement.
Chick Young: Who said that?
Invisible Man: Allow me to introduce myself. I'm the Invisible Man.
- Crazy CreditsCharles Bradstreet is credited as Dr. Stevens, but his character is never once called "Doctor." He is always referred to as Professor Stevens.
- Alternative VersionenFor its original release, the Australian film board required that almost every scene involving a monster be removed before release.
- VerbindungenEdited from Frankenstein trifft den Wolfsmenschen (1943)
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- Abbott y Costello contra los fantasmas
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- Budget
- 800.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 4.796.000 $
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 4.812.444 $
- Laufzeit
- 1 Std. 23 Min.(83 min)
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- Seitenverhältnis
- 1.37 : 1