Abbott And Costello - In The Foreign Legion / Meet The Keystone Cops (DVD) (DVD)

Abbott And Costello - Join The Foreign Legion and then Meet the Keystone Cops.
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The Boys:
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Bud Abbott was born in1895 in New Jersey, USA. Surprisingly Lou Costello was born 1906 also in New Jersey, USA. They had both toured in ‘Burlesque’ but had only limited success until teaming up in 1936. But it wasn’t until 1940 until they where signed by ...
...years later in 1959. Bud Abbott however lived until 1974!

Their work will remain timeless as is the way with innocent and genuinely funny comedy.


Abbott And Costello - In The Foreign Legion.
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Starts with the boys in Algeria looking for one of their wrestlers that has done a bunk and gone back home. They meet a sergeant in the local Foreign Legion and 'he tricks them into ... more

Abbott And Costello - Join The Foreign Legion and then Meet the Keystone Cops.

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The Boys:
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Bud Abbott was born in1895 in New Jersey, USA. Surprisingly Lou Costello was born 1906 also in New Jersey, USA. They had both toured in ‘Burlesque’ but had only limited success until teaming up in 1936. But it wasn’t until 1940 until they where signed by ‘Universal’ and went on to make their first movie ‘Night in the Tropics’. By 1950 there Star was starting to fade.

Also, not all was well between the boys, as at times throughout their career together, Bud had a 60/40 split on their earnings and this had always irked Lou. Later it would surface and eventually along with the drinking and gambling and being chased by huge Tax bills, they eventually split in 1957.

Sadly Lou Costello died 2 years later in 1959. Bud Abbott however lived until 1974!

Their work will remain timeless as is the way with innocent and genuinely funny comedy.

Abbott And Costello - In The Foreign Legion.
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Starts with the boys in Algeria looking for one of their wrestlers that has done a bunk and gone back home. They meet a sergeant in the local Foreign Legion and 'he tricks them into enlisting. They soon learn that the sergeant is crooked and involved with a local sheik. They end up lost in the desert but finally get to a isolated fort and end up fighting Arabs.

Lots of gags and the desert scenes are simply superb, Bud going swimming in a mirage swimming pool. Lots of sand everywhere and plenty of slaps and puns. Pretty girls who all seem madly in love with Bud, maybe its all that sun. He later gets bitten by a fish wearing false teeth, watch the film you'll understand.
The pathos is has a slow burn to it and the ending is, of course, happy.

The entire movie was shot in studio and although it is obvious it doesn't detract from this wonderful movie. They create mayhem in amongst the hard boys of the Legion. This is a cracking movie and worth a watch, true it's their standard stuff but that in its self is still very funny.

Recommended.
Format: Black & White, PAL
Classification: U
Run Time: 76 minutes

The second feature;

Abbott And Costello Meet The Keystone Cops Kops.
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The movie starts with Bud and Lou being conned into buying an entire film studio by a very slick con man.
they soon realise they have been duped and so follow the trickster to Hollywood where he is using a false name and pretending to be a film director whilst embezzling the pay-role.

There then follows the usual Abbott and Costello madness and mayhem. They end up getting involved with a leading actress and soon the Trickster, Gorman, is setting the cast of the movie and the security at the studio after them.

Eventually the police are called and guess who turns up the barmiest bunch of policemen ever to have adorned the silver screen. Things go far chaotic to outright insanity. The bit where a squirrel is popping in and out of a loaf of bread is just marvellous.

Explosions, fights and a car chase all ensue until the bad guy is caught, more by luck than skill. the cops falling off and on the police wagon is pure Keystone.

Kids and adults alike, today, could watch it with no concerns of offence.
Never scary enough to scare the kids. So funny that the scary bits are laughable.
Bud and Lou are in the zone with plenty of slaps and puns.

They had a tendency to play out a joke, then repeat it, then repeat it whilst each time building the humour higher and higher right up till and explosive crescendo.
Whilst another ploy they utilised was to use pathos and have a slow burn to it.
You know that the ending is, of course, a happy one.

This is a cracking movie and worth a watch, true it's their standard stuff but that in its self is still very funny.
Recommended.

DVD Info:
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Format: Black & White
Language English
Classification: U
Run Time: 75 minutes

Both films have chapter selection only and the quality of sound and picture is of its time. None the less still highly watchable.

Greg.  

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