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John Grant

Filmography

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17 titles
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Charles Lamont 1955 1h 19m 6.0

Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Charles Lamont 1955 1h 20m 6.0

Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director.

Fireman Save My Child

Fireman Save My Child

Leslie Goodwins 1954 1h 19m

Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Charles Lamont 1953 1h 17m 7.0

As American policemen in London, Bud and Lou meet up with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Charles Barton 1952 1h 18m

Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter in a horse race, while Rosie takes up with handsome young Marvin Johnson.

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

Charles Lamont 1952 1h 10m 5.0

Rocky and Puddin' Head are waiting tables at an inn on Tortuga when a letter given them by Lady Jane for delivery to Martingale gets switched with a treasure map. Kidd and Bonney kidnap them to Skull Island to find said treasure.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Charles Lamont 1951 1h 23m 4.5

Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy's invisible help

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff

Charles Barton 1949 1h 24m 7.0

Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami).

The Noose Hangs High

The Noose Hangs High

Charles Barton 1948 1h 17m 5.0

Two window washers mistakenly receive, and lose, $50,000 belonging to a shady bookie, and have only forty-eight hours to retrieve the money.

Mexican Hayride

Mexican Hayride

Charles Barton 1948 1h 18m 6.0

Bud and Lou head south of the border after getting mixed up in a phony oil stock scheme.

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

Charles Barton 1948 1h 23m 7.2

The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

Charles Barton 1947 1h 18m

Chester Wooley (Lou Costello) and Duke Egan (Bud Abbott) are traveling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal, Fred Hawkins, is murdered, and the two are charged with the crime.

The Naughty Nineties

The Naughty Nineties

Jean Yarbrough 1945 1h 16m

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

Lost in a Harem

Lost in a Harem

Charles Reisner 1944 1h 29m 6.0

Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

It Ain't Hay

It Ain't Hay

Erle C. Kenton 1943 1h 20m 5.0

Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.

Pardon My Sarong

Pardon My Sarong

Erle C. Kenton 1942 1h 24m 6.0

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Hold That Ghost

Hold That Ghost

Arthur Lubin 1941 1h 26m 8.0

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

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