Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein
Comedy, Horror
Universal Studios  (1948) 83 mins NR

7.5 (4,451 votes)
If you like Horror Classics, you'll love this laugh-fest with Abbott and Costello!

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein continues the horror-comedy series and features "the boys" with their usual quota of familiar routines providing the backbone of the plot by becoming Count Dracula's victim for a brain transplant. Lon Chaney, Jr. appears as the Wolf Man along with Dracula played by Bela Lugosi and Glenn Strange as the Frankenstein monster.

Abbott and Costello, as railroad baggage clerks, receive a strange shipment -- the last remains of Dracula and Frankenstein's monster. But this deadly duo is still very much alive. So when the shipment arrives at the House of Horrors, the Monsters are not in their crates but have disappeared to a secret hideaway island. Blamed for the disappearance, Abbott and Costello follow their trail to the island where not o...

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Cast and Crew
Lon Chaney
Bud Abbott  ......  Chick Young
Lou Costello  ......  Wilbur Grey
Jane Randolph  ......  Joan Raymond
Lenore Aubert  ......  Dr. Sandra Mornay
Bela Lugosi  ......  Count Dracula
Jr. Lon Chaney  ...... 
Director  .....  Charles Barton
Producer  .....  Robert Arthur
Writer  .....  John Grant; Robert Lees; Mary Shelley; Bram Stoker
Notes
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: As the monster begins to sit up in the crate in the house of horrors after being revived by Dracula, you can see the monster make-up separate between his right eye and brow. (more)

Trivia:
The opening scene of "London", then "Big Ben" is followed by a constable on patrol. This shot was lifted from Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) in the scene a constable finds the unconscious Lawrence Talbot after his "resurrection", that same constable is murdered by the Wolf Man the following night. A filter was used to darken the shot for inclusion in this film. (more)

Filming Locations:
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA

Quotes:
Chick Young: You still want your exhibits?
McDougal: Of course I do.
Wilbur Grey: Here comes one now!
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Awards:
1 win (more)