The Making of Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein
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- Hosted by David j. Skal. This is a behind the scenes look of the making of the greatest horror comedy ever made, starring the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, with horror icons Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr.
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I'm 71 and I still love this 'Horror Movie' 👍👍 (aka Siskel & Ebert)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is an all time classic film that combines one of the greatest comedy teams of all time with some of the greatest monsters of filmdom. One of my favorite films.
Abbott and Costello are simply legendary performers. Meets Frankenstein is a classic. Never gets old.
To bad Karloff could not be Frankenstein again
@@josephvitielo1693Boris Karloff actually regretted not coming out in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein so he made sure to come out in Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy.
@@philgarza6158 you mean Jeckel and Hyde
Even now at 60 it remains one of my favorite movies and still makes me laugh
My mother was very strict about me not watching "monster movies", she thought they would give me nightmares. Oh brother. My Dad didn't care but he didn't want hassles with my mother so I was screwed. But one night in '63 when I was 6 years old ABC Saturday Night at The Movies was showing Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. I knew I couldn't watch it but my Dad really wanted to see it so I begged and begged and to my utter astonishment he looked up at my mother from his big TV watching chair and said "This one's OK....it's just a comedy". She gave him a look like "you've got nothin' coming later" and marched out of the room. I was SO excited I couldn't believe it.......I was actually gonna get to watch a real monster movie.......with Frankenstein! Little did I know that it also had Dracula AND the Wolfman. It was nothing of a comedy to me. I completely blocked out all the humor and only concentrated on the "good parts" to make it as much of a horror movie as possible. I never enjoyed a movie more in my life. I was absolutely thrilled. I'm 62 now and I remember that night like it was last month.
Yes. 4 years old. Saw it on TV first with my older brother, then he had to go somewhere. I finished it off sitting at the top of the stairs. I was hooked on universal monsters ever sence!
At 83, I have vivid memories of the "monster movies" of my youth. To me they are a harbinger of the kind of joy and adventure of an innocent childhood lived with little or no fear. When Abbot and Costello finally met the monsters, I was out of my childhood, but I distinctly remember the same kind of joy and adventure with the addition of the kind of humor that was the keystone of Abbot and Costello and their movies. Ah, childhood and everything that made it so memorable. Thank you Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf Man and Abbott and Costello for a memorable childhood.
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1962. I was 4 years old and watched this on tv with my teenage brother. I was FACINATED.
No matter how many times I watch this movie, when Lou is with Frankenstein cracks me up every time!!!
Great to see Lugosi and Chaney reprise their original characters.
She’d be excited to know that I am watching on my watch.
In 1949, 2 friends and I rode buses to different theaters in Detroit, We were 14 - 15 at the time. Phil J. Al S/ and me, Bob C. We did that 4 different time. We had some of the comic lines down to a T! They are both gone but what a hoot it would be for the 3 of us to see this together! Thanks for the Memory...
Loved watching this with my brothers and sisters on Saturday morning back in the late 60s early 70s
When I was a kid, WPIX out of NYC used to air Abbott and Costello movies every Sunday at 11:30am....I watched them every week for years, until they stopped doing it....saw the movies over and over and still love them to this day when I occasionally see clips....
I also grew up in NY and remember WPIX well. This is one of my favorite A&C movie, I also enjoy The Time of Their Lives where Costello is a ghost.
@@coolaunt516 lol....that was always one of my favorites....and it was one that they aired very rarely, as I recall....I really loved that one!
Me, too! Channel 11 WPIX was great!
Me too!
Same here in Pittsburgh. They aired at the same time 11:30am every Sunday on WPGH Channel 53.
The best horror spoof ever made. I love this film
Totally agree! I love watching horror spoofs, but this one is the one stands on top of 'em all.
Tim Burton has made mazes magic made film Tcm Uinveral studios Hollywood 90s 80s 70s years
You folks left out the invisible man in the rowboat....it wasn't Claude Reins, he refused. The soon to be new master of horror because of his laugh.. Vincent Price.
Good thing, too. Raines was a great actor and the original 'invisible man', but Price best suited the A and C material. His voice was perfect, esp for this. Imho.
Abbott and Costello were great , clean films.
This is one of their funniest films.
I was about 6 years or so old and my older Brother (16) took me to the neighborhood movie house to see A & C meet Frankenstein. About 1948/9. I never forgot it. Of course he could not stay to see it because I was hiding on the movie floor behind the seat in front of me crying from fright. My brother is long passed away but I have that memory of us so long and young ago.
My favorite Abbot & Costello movie OF ALL TIME.
Abbott and Costello were my favorites while growing up and when I see their movies now at 64 years old I still get a big kick out of them...
Loved them and The 3 Stooges, too bad they never made a movie together that would've been funny and awesome, let's throw Don Knotts with them as well, Don Knotts ,3 Stooges and Abbott and Costello --- the funniest people of all time!!👍💪😀😀😀😀😀😀😀🤠🤠😀😀🤗🤗🤗🤗
Loved Don Knotts in the Incredible Mr. Limpet. One of my favorite Comedies.
REALLY enjoyed that. The Abbott and Costello crossover with Universals stable of monsters was pure genius.
Spent many a Saturday afternoon watching Abbott and Costello on T.V. This one became a favorite of mine nearly 50 years ago. It can still make me laugh. I remember how it was spooky when I was a child. Great memories.
60 years ago for me, watching on Saturday afternoon TV in a small Texas town. Great entertainment, and not a care in the world. Those halcyon days are gone.
I got this movie on VHS when I was in late elementary school and couldn’t stop laughing. And even today, I still can’t watch this movie without bursting out laughing. The wax museum part with the crates was my absolute favorite.
It was always funny how Costello was always seeing the Monsters, But they'd disappear the moment Abbot would show up. 😄😄😄
They were my childhood every Sunday growing up in the late 60s, to early 80s!! I laugh with these films even today!!
This is what you call a Classic!
was only 6 when lou passed but remember that day in 1959.i loved him so much ,hope to meet him on the other side some day.want to thank him for all the joy he brought to me
LON CHANEY: "At night, on a full moon, I turn into a wolf." COSTELLO: "You and twenty million udder guys." I'm way over 50 and that one line in that movie has me in tears whenever I hear it:)) How funny is this movie. Me, my family after Wonderama, every Sunday at 11:30 watching Abbott and Costello get in and out of all kinds of trouble. God bless those of us with these great, wonderful memories. Where, oh where has the time gone.
I love Abbott and Costello and this is my favorite movie of there's. Since I was a kind,I must have seen it 50+ times. I also raised my kids on these movies.
I'm 33 years old and this is one of my favorite movies of all time. Grew up watching it with my grandmother and Mom at least once a year. I tried to explain to people my age how awesome this movie is and they just look at me like I'm silly lol
My brother had these on VHS and we would constantly watch them. They were awesome in the 80s.
One of my top 3 all time favs
Horror movies of all time
Loved this as a kid
As a kid, I used to love watching the Universal monster movies on late night BBC TV and I used to watch the Abbott & Costello show too, so putting the two together was magic for me. 😃
Abbott and Costello watching all their syndicated repeats on T.V. on a early Sunday morning and all of their movies that aired on the television on a Saturday evening from the late 1960's all the way into the 1970's and beyond made a kid like me and so many others like me laugh and they gave us something to look forward to that just made weekends magical and great when I was a kid. --- Cool posting !
I had the Frankenstein Legacy collection on DVD from the early 2000s. This movie unfortunately was not included. Then when I upgraded to a new Legacy Blu-ray, it was thankfully there. The movie still holds up after all these years. It’s the subtle humorous one liners that are the golden nuggets in this film.
I have the DVD and watch it almost every weekend during the Spring and summer. So nostalgic. I’m 68.
I recall seeing this fantastic movie when I was a kid... amazingly, the kids that loved making noises and annoying the rest of the audience were quiet, except for when they laughed, which was throughout the movie. Yes, Abbott & Costello's greatest movie, and most hilarious, too. Dracula with Bela Lugosi, the Frankenstein monster, Lon Chaney Jr as the Wolf Man... what a treat for all kids to watch. Growing up watching Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and all the creature/monster movies, too, was what kids in my age group did most. I recall the scene where Dracula sucks the blood of the woman, and there's a mirror in back of them and we see Dracula's image... and I yelled, "Hey, Dracula ain't supposed to cast an image on mirrors...!" and everyone started talking about that scene at the end of the movie. Still, the movie was great!
This is my Halloween night opening feature. I follow it with another scary film. This year it's the classics. Dracula & The Wolfman originals.
How about Creature From the Black Lagoon, or King Kong vs. Godzilla 😎?
is it British or American Movie ??
A mans monster movie interests of my own heart! Ditto,for me!
Ahmad Mahmoud Abdel Kader
American.
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I was ten years old when I saw this film the first time and I’ve loved it ever since, I’m 65 now.
First Saw this film when I was about 7-8 years old (Now 43) I remember being ill and slept most of the day, this came on tv about midnight and I was laughing all the way though the film, been hooked ever since 🧛🏻🧟♂️
I found this movie enormously exciting when I was a kid -- and spooky, too; afterall, that WAS the wolfman and dracula! I'd seen them before!
THE BEST....! :)
Lou's daughter is 1 yr older than I..I loved this film. She's so lucky to have had Lou as her dad.
wow!..good memories. I remember watching Abbott and Costello when I was a kid. Missed them.. 😂
This movie is so much fun. My husband and I introduced it to our son when he was about 10, and we still watch it together often (he’s now 26).
A and C meet Frank.... was one of my favorite fun movies as a kid.. it had all the great monsters together, i even bought an 8 mm 10 minute version put out by Castle films
I absolutely love Abbott and Costello. This has to be my all time favorite movie of theirs. I brought my own kids up watching their movies in black and white. Miss this kind of comedy and horror mix. These are the movies they should be remaking.
I remember that, as a child, I could not watch this movie. It scared me too much.
In the Sixties this film was a staple on TV. It was also very popular on 8mm, saw it many a time on a bed sheet screen lol.
We just were blessed to be simply entertained.
Thanks for the memories!
Abbot and Costello are my all time favorites .Right up there with The 3 Stooges
'The Time of Their Lives' will always be my most beloved Abbott & Costello movie.
Yep that was the first one i saw when I was 4 or 5, at a neighbors house, i will always remember that day
Introduced my grandchildren to these and they love them! Real classics!
I absolutely loved and continue to love this movie and recommend it to everyone. thank you for posting this documentary!!
I watch it every time its on TCM . I like when Chaney tells Costello that he turns into a werewolf during a full moon and he replies , dont every guy .
Such an excellent film and of course, a classic! Will always remember seeing this as a child in the 80s and being completely mesmerised. Abbott and Costello were comedy greats and to get them together with the Universal monsters was a stroke of genius. I will always have a place for this film in my heart. So glad that generations before and after me get to appreciate its impact too. Hilarious, mysterious and charming all at the same time!
my thoughts of when I was a child waiting at 11:30am on Saturday to see these great comedians in a picture. This biography of them really takes me back to a simpler time. Thanks for this.
Right after church. Home for breakfast then turn on A &C. It was on Sunday morning in our market.
Me and my Siblings would huddle around the TV Set whenever an Abbot & Costello Horror Comedy was on.
We also Loved the Ray Harryhausen Sinbad films and anything with Godzilla in it.
When I was a kid back in the 60's we had a show called Passport to adventure where the host, Elwy Yost would show a half hour of a movie from Monday to Thursday, My Dad would try to make it home to watch with me. I cannot tell how this film thrilled and hooked me forever of the Universal Monsters.
Amazed the narrator didn't mention that the "Invisible Man" in the rowboat was the voice of Vincent Price!
Abbott and Costello play it for laughs, but the monsters play it absolutely straight and serious throughout, that is the secret of successfully mixing two genres I think, if the monsters played it for laughs it wouldn't be scary , so when we watch this movie we are hysterical with both laughter and fear which is quite a heady mixture!!!
I loved Abbot and Costello and the Universal b n w monster movies as a kid and still do. Much better than the comedy and monster/horror films of today..Classy men, classic movies..TY for sharing this
Loved Lenore Aubert in this film as Sandra Mornay. Beautiful, graceful, continental....and there's no mistaking that look of lustful abandon on her face when Dracula bites her. Surprised that got by the censors!
I want a ring like Dracula used to re-energize the Frankenstein Monster.
It would be great to use to jump start my 1990 Plymouth Grand Voyager in the winter.
With a few alterations it would also make a great USB portable power storage bank to charge my smart phone and my laptop.
this was the GREATEST movie from the GREATEST COMEDY TEAM OF ALL TIME!
Wonderful movie. The music of the Universal horror/comedy movies was also a real asset.
I actually met Chris Costello twice at the Lafayette Theater in Suffern New York. The first movie was Hold that Ghost and the second movie was Abbott and Costello meet Captain Kidd. She has to be the nicest Ladies I met. When someone meets her she will treat you like a long lost family member.
That's Very interesting. I lived in Suffern for a year in 2010 and was an Extra in a movie filmed inside the Lafayette Theater called "White Irish Drinkers" that was supposed to reflect 1975 Brooklyn, N.Y. and the Lafayette was used because it was the Last theater in New York that hadn't been renovated and was still as it was the day it opened in 1923 which the movies Director John Gray and his wife needed for a riot when the Rolling Stones failed to show.
It was great fun for me and I still haven't seen the movie yet to see if I'm actually seen in it.
Chris Costello probably lives in Suffern too because I thought she looked a bit familiar to me though I never knew who she is, what a shame.
I have to agree with you, Chris is a charming and wonderful lady. she even helped my partner and she even helped my partner and I, when we she even helped my partner and I, when we played Abbott Costello in a commercial for ABC she even helped my partner and I, when we played Abbott Costello in a commercial for ABC. ABC hadn't checked into getting the rights to button lose characters for the commercial and Chris helped me get in touch with the right people in order to make sure that the commercial got made. Thanks Chris!
@@constitution_8939 Actually the owner of the theater said he flew her in from California.
@@Tinyman12 Because your comment notified me, I have to update my original comment from 4 years ago. I actually watched the movie I was an extra in and I'm there in 3 shots plain as day inside the theater and walking up the isle with other extras in the longest shot of about 3 seconds and Damn did I look Good and took a few stills of myself in that long brown leather trench coat and high collar lime green shirt that was total '70's' looking. I was looking much better 13 years ago though.
My favorite of all their movies
Along with Hold the Ghost,this is a favorite A&C movies. Absolutely loved it.
Kaye Quinn
Yup !!!!!!!!!!!
As a kid, I had to watch between my fingers over my eyes. Actually, I still do! Loved A & C films dearly. ‘Buck Privates’ is probably my all time favorite. This was great - thanks for posting.
A Real Funny Movie. I Like the Table Cloth Scene with Lou.
My favorite Abbot and Costello Movie!
When I first saw Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein on TV it was in 1961 or 1962, I was 5, 6 years old. To me, of course funny, but it also scared me as well. My all time favorite Abbott and Costello movie. Classic!
Same age here. It was great fun!
@@kensellers4082 I thought the same thing when I was a kid.
This isn't just a terrific & funny movie, it is one of the best-photographed and staged film of its time.
Friday Night Fright Night introduced me to the monsters and being afraid to sleep with my closet door open. A&C always made me laugh. What a great combination that I have watched numerous times over the years and always enjoy.
I love this movie. My favorite A&C film and comedy horror!
Bela's son is adorable...and I do understand how his dad's TIME meant Lets do this and now.....work days on a film can be far too long. I have worked up until that 15th hour BEGINS and its that moment they say "Cut," "That's a wrap>" and good bye!
Bela didn't like to waste time nor should he had too.
"How would you like to die?" "Old age." Hilarious!
Is never an option 🤣🤣🤣
Ancient joke
Supposedly first attributed to the jester of a French king. Having been condemned to death for an "inopportune" joke about the boss, as a recognition of his previous service he was allowed to choose the manner of his death.
He thought for a moment, then said "Old age"
The king laughed, and pardoned him
Comedian history
I think that Young Frankenstein owes at least a little bit to A & C Meet Frankenstein. For instance the revolving wall gag.
That was an old joke by then but always hilarious
Put the candle back!!!
I liked this film so much I bought a 8mm off a Horror magazine in the 60's , it was a silent short but had it till in 76' I used it as my English class .
Channel 7 WXYZ in Detroit had all the Abbott & Costello movies !
I am from Taylor and watched it along side "Hot Fudge" on Sunday mornings back in the 70's.
I'm 30 years old and my parents had this and other Abbott and Costello movies on tape at home. This one has many great memories for all us kids!! Especially when Dracula does that whole "hand thing"....it scared us so much as kids!! Love this movie!!
And 100% proof that you don't need to be crass to be hilarious!!
this is a real gem of a documentary. Thanks a million
Serious joy when this movie starts... Great love.
That movie pretty much single- handedly birthed the horror- comedy subgenre. Without it, we likely never would have gotten 'Young Frankenstein,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (The movie AND the show), 'Zombieland,' 'Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil,' and countless other gems.
It was a true game changer.
Some trivia about Abbott and Costello Meets Frankenstein, In the scene where they are going through a revolving door, Costello calls out 'Abbott' instead of 'Chick'. Also during the ending scene when Sandra is being thrown out the window, a camera falls on the foot of Glenn Strange and he broke his foot, so Lon Chaney Jr. became the monster during that scene as well as the ending when the monster is throwing barrels at the boat it is Lon Chaney Jr. as the monster.
when i was 6 years old, i was sick & stayed home from school..my Dad stayed home, and we watched this film..i have the dvd....
She was right!! I'm watching this on my phone!!!! I watched tgese movies every weelendbas a kid...LOVED THEM
yes, quite a prophetess. looks like this was done in 2000, so she was very forward thinking.
A and C...best and funniest film of their career.
as a youngster we had a 19 in tv that we watched ch 11 nyc...during the week as they played a movie every night at 8 pm...lots of the time it was an A and C movie....i watched them all...every time they came on tv
Still one of my all time favorite comedies!
Old time movies it easier to pretend it real, like Dracula movie a very underrated scary movie , when something is made close to 1800 it seems more real
I love you guys. Until the end, you'll both be in my heart.
This is from 22 years ago! Watching it I thought some of the people looked a little young as Bela Lugosi Jr would be in his 80s now.
I remember seeing this when I was about six or seven years old with my father. On Sunday afternoons there was a tv show that showed classic movies. I can't remember the name of the show but it was 1981 or 1982. Many years later I bought the movie on dvd and going to show it to my son when he is about six.
If you are from Chicago, the name of the show was "Family Classics". it would start in October and through to about Christmas. Frazier Thomas was the host. All-time favorite program on WGN Channel 9.
My favorite boxing joke comes from Abbott and Costello meet the Invisible Man: "He seems to be blocking most of the punches with his face."
A classic for sure.
David J. Skal grew up in Cleveland, where there was never a shortage of horror movies being run on local TV, hosted by a slew of legendary late night horror movie hosts.
The Killer - '' Maybe you would like to select your own means of destruction , how would you like to die ? '' Lou - '' Old age ''
This is one of my favorites. I.J.S.
GREATEST COMEDY HORROR MOVIE EVER R.I.P. LUE N BUD N GLENN
They would never have guessed their movies still live on on CZcams!
Great documentary, but I was expecting a few minutes talking about Dracula's vampire transformation effects. They are awesomely perfect, especially considering the time they were made.
I believe Walter Lantz of Woody. Woodpecker fame did the bat animation. I think 🤔
@@ricthomas9788 Yes, he did it.
I loved that animation, i knew what it was as a 6 year old, i used to draw it
These old Universal Horror films are the best. XD
100%!!!
Great! Love these guys.,. Probably the last of the great comedy teams.
Tony, ever hear of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis?
Really enjoyed this. Like so many others posted here, A&C were a BIG part of my childhood Sunday morns in front of the TV. Also cool to see Lou's and Bela's kids commenting. Great documentary. 👏
A great film A great childhood memory 😊