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The best of Abbott and Costello. Volume 1 / Universal Studios ; a Universal picture ; Universal presents.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmPublisher number: 61123984 | Universal Studios Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2012]Copyright date: ℗2012Description: 4 videodiscs (675 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Other title:
  • Best of Bud Abbott and Lous Costello
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/75 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .B47 2012
Contents:
Disc 1. One night in the tropics (83 min. : 1940) / screenplay, Gertrude Purcell, Charles Grayson ; adapted by Kathryn Scola and Francis Martin ; associate producer, Leonard Spigelgass ; directed by A. Edward Sutherland -- Buck privates (85 min. : 1941) / original screenplay, Arthur T. Horman ; special material for Abbott and Costello, John Grant ; associate producer, Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Arthur Lubin -- disc 2. In the Navy (86 min. : 1941) / screenplay, Arthur T. Horman, John Grant ; original story, Arthur T. Horman ; associate producer, Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Arthur Lubin -- Hold that ghost (86 min. : 1941) / screenplay by Robert Lees, Fred Rinaldo, John Grant ; original story, Robert Lees, Fred Rinaldo ; associate producers, Burt Kelly, Glenn Tryon ; directed by Arthur Lubin -- disc 3. Keep 'em flying (87 min. : 1941) / screenplay by True Boardman, Nat Perrin, John Grant ; original story, Edmund L. Hartmann ; associate producer, Glenn Tryon ; directed by Arthur Lubin -- Ride 'em cowboy (86 min. : 1942) / screenplay by True Boardman, John Grant ; adapted by Harold Shumate ; from an original story by Edmund L. Hartmann ; associate producer, Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Arthur Lubin -- disc 4. Pardon my sarong (84 min. : 1942) / a Mayfair production ; original screenplay, True Boardman, Nat Perrin, John Grant ; associate producer, Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Erle C. Kenton -- Who done it? (78 min. : 1942) / screenplay, Stanley Roberts, Edmund Joseph, John Grant ; original story, Stanley Roberts ; associate producer, Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Erle C. Kenton.
Summary: One night in the tropics: Abbott and Costello play "two stooges employed by Roscoe, a crooked nightclub owner. Having financed a dubious 'love insurance' policy, Roscoe wants the boys to ensure that Steve marries his hard-to-get girlfriend as they travel to fun in the sun aboard a luxury ocean liner bound for San Marcos, South America."Summary: Buck privates: Abbott and Costello hide in an enlistment center to elude the police, and find themselves in the army.Summary: In the Navy: Two sailors bound for duty on the high seas befriend a singing star who has ditched the limelight for a quiet enlisted life, and try to help him evade an ambitious reporter intent on using his new identity for her big story.Summary: Hold that ghost: Strange things start to happen when Abbott and Costello claim their inheritance, an abandoned roadhouse.Summary: Keep 'em flying: Bud and Lou enlist in the Army Air Corps and get caught up in a love triangle.Summary: Ride 'em cowboy: The duo head to the Lazy S ranch to hide after Lou accidentally proposes to an Indian girl.Summary: Pardon my sarong: Bud and Lou travel to the south seas where Lou is mistaken for a legendary god.Summary: Who done it?: Slapstick comedy thriller in which two radio writers become involved in a real murder while they are recording a whodunit play.
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One night in the tropics: from the novel "Love Insurance" by Earl Derr Biggers.

Disc 1. One night in the tropics (83 min. : 1940) / screenplay, Gertrude Purcell, Charles Grayson ; adapted by Kathryn Scola and Francis Martin ; associate producer, Leonard Spigelgass ; directed by A. Edward Sutherland -- Buck privates (85 min. : 1941) / original screenplay, Arthur T. Horman ; special material for Abbott and Costello, John Grant ; associate producer, Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Arthur Lubin -- disc 2. In the Navy (86 min. : 1941) / screenplay, Arthur T. Horman, John Grant ; original story, Arthur T. Horman ; associate producer, Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Arthur Lubin -- Hold that ghost (86 min. : 1941) / screenplay by Robert Lees, Fred Rinaldo, John Grant ; original story, Robert Lees, Fred Rinaldo ; associate producers, Burt Kelly, Glenn Tryon ; directed by Arthur Lubin -- disc 3. Keep 'em flying (87 min. : 1941) / screenplay by True Boardman, Nat Perrin, John Grant ; original story, Edmund L. Hartmann ; associate producer, Glenn Tryon ; directed by Arthur Lubin -- Ride 'em cowboy (86 min. : 1942) / screenplay by True Boardman, John Grant ; adapted by Harold Shumate ; from an original story by Edmund L. Hartmann ; associate producer, Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Arthur Lubin -- disc 4. Pardon my sarong (84 min. : 1942) / a Mayfair production ; original screenplay, True Boardman, Nat Perrin, John Grant ; associate producer, Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Erle C. Kenton -- Who done it? (78 min. : 1942) / screenplay, Stanley Roberts, Edmund Joseph, John Grant ; original story, Stanley Roberts ; associate producer, Alex Gottlieb ; directed by Erle C. Kenton.

One night in the tropics: Abbott and Costello play "two stooges employed by Roscoe, a crooked nightclub owner. Having financed a dubious 'love insurance' policy, Roscoe wants the boys to ensure that Steve marries his hard-to-get girlfriend as they travel to fun in the sun aboard a luxury ocean liner bound for San Marcos, South America."

Buck privates: Abbott and Costello hide in an enlistment center to elude the police, and find themselves in the army.

In the Navy: Two sailors bound for duty on the high seas befriend a singing star who has ditched the limelight for a quiet enlisted life, and try to help him evade an ambitious reporter intent on using his new identity for her big story.

Hold that ghost: Strange things start to happen when Abbott and Costello claim their inheritance, an abandoned roadhouse.

Keep 'em flying: Bud and Lou enlist in the Army Air Corps and get caught up in a love triangle.

Ride 'em cowboy: The duo head to the Lazy S ranch to hide after Lou accidentally proposes to an Indian girl.

Pardon my sarong: Bud and Lou travel to the south seas where Lou is mistaken for a legendary god.

Who done it?: Slapstick comedy thriller in which two radio writers become involved in a real murder while they are recording a whodunit play.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD; full frame (1.33:1) presentation; dual layer; Dolby digital 2.0 mono.; NTSC region 1.

Dialogue in English; subtitles in English, French or Spanish.

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