Over the past couple of months I have endeavored to share items from my vast collection of movie and television photographs. I started back in the beginning of October and so far I have managed to post a whopping three photos. I figured on my abacus that if I continued at this pace, posting one photo at a time, I could get them all up in about eight hundred years. I don't know about you but Ken doesn't want to spend quite that much time on this crazy rock.
One of the stars of today's feature, Dracula, may be cursed and have to spend eternity wandering the Earth in search of blood, but so far I have escaped such an affliction.
In honor of tonight's movie on Svengoolie, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, I have decided to post all the images I have for the film. Not just one.
Maybe I can cut this thing down to a manageable two hundred years this way?
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is a 1948 American horror comedy film directed by Charles Barton and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.
The picture is the first of several films in which the comedy duo meets classic characters from Universal's horror film stable. In this film, they encounter Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), Frankenstein's monster (Glenn Strange), and the Wolf Man (Lon Chaney Jr.). Subsequent films pair the duo with the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Mummy. (The comedians interacted with the last of the Universal Studios monsters, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, on live television on the Colgate Comedy Hour in 1954.) This film is considered the swan song for the "Big Three" Universal horror monsters, none of whom had appeared in a Universal film since House of Dracula (1945).
In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed this film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry, and in September 2007, Reader's Digest selected the movie as one of the top 100 funniest films of all time. The film is number 56th on the list of the American Film Institute's "100 Funniest American Movies"
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