Abbott & Costello: 8 Classic Films [DVD]

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These films are corny and a laugh they entertain for an hour or so

Once more, this kind of a collection is for fans of a duo, and of a nostalgia from an era in which films were much different from films today. The team made a lot of comedy films and all contained some classic comedy routines which harkened back to the burlesque and vaudville days which even predated the Aand C films themselves. Thus, while most of their material in the stories was original a lot had been borrowed from what were popular and time honored gags. If not for the likes of A and C these gags might have faded into obscurity. Thanks to such film work they have not. This set is also particularly fun if you are also a fan of the famed Universal Horror classics turned out in the 30's and 40's, with their monsters. These versions made as that era was coming to a close was the last gasp, though a merry one, at those films as the new era of Sci-Fi creatures dawned.

Brought this as part of Black Friday Deals. I love Abbott and Costello meet the mummy. I snapped up the deal for this film. I had never seen the Foreign Legion Film or go to Mars. Did not find them at all funny. Found these two films to be the inferior films in the collection. Found the ones when they meet the Killer to be very funny. I had forgotten that Lou dresses up as a maid and that the bodies keep being moved and the scenes in the cavern. A common theme. No song being sung in this film and Boris Karloff as a bonus. The invisible man is good as the abbott and Costello are newly qualified detectives trying to help a framed Boxer.

It was a Xmas present to me from my wife

Good old films to show my young son.

Each film a worthwhile addition to the collection

Quite cheap looking, but all in all a good buy.