Directed by:
Charles LamontScreenplay:
John GrantCinematography:
Reggie LanningCast:
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Fred Clark, Lynn Bari, Harold Goodwin, Roscoe Ates, Mack Sennett, Heinie Conklin, Hank Mann, Frank Wilcox, William H. O'Brien (more)Plots(1)
Set in 1912, the film casts Bud Abbott and Lou Costello as a couple of New Yorkers who are swindled out of their life savings by a crooked lout (Fred Clark). Pursuing the villain to Hollywood, the boys discover that the double-dealer is now posing as an autocratic Russian film director. To put A&C out of the way, the crook and his partner in crime (Lynn Bari) hire the boys as stunt men, intending to kill them off at the first opportunity. But the comic duo save the day when they enlist the aid of the Keystone Kops in capturing the fleeing villain, who has absconded with the studio payroll. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Bud Abbott
USA
Best movies:
Who Done It? (1942)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
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Lou Costello
USA
Best movies:
Who Done It? (1942)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Fred Clark
USA
Best movies:
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Lynn Bari
USA
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Harold Goodwin
USA
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Spartacus (1960)
Roscoe Ates
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
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Freaks (1932)
Mack Sennett
Canada
Heinie Conklin
USA
Best movies:
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Circus (1928)
Hank Mann
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
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Frank Wilcox
USA
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William H. O'Brien
Australia
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The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Maxie Rosenbloom
USA
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Donald Kerr
USA
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Joe Besser
USA
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The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
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Ralph Brooks
USA
Best movies:
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Harry Tyler
USA
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Paul Dubov
USA
Best movies:
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William Haade
USA
Best movies:
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Kit Guard
Denmark
Best movies:
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It Happened One Night (1934)
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Joe Devlin
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)