open image in gallery Flogging the comedy-horror horse: 1955’s ‘Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy’ (Snap/Shutterstock) This success kicked off a series where Abbott and Costello met the ...

Of the most popular, Karloff‘s “The Mummy” premiered in 1932 ... The monsters even met comedy superstars Abbott and Costello. With the exception of “The Creature from the Black Lagoon ...

Buck Privates, Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, Lost in Alaska, Comin' Round the Mountain, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars and Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. - Written by Tom Weaver ...

How someone at Universal came up with the idea to pair them with their stable of monsters is anybody’s guess, but it actually worked, culminating in the 1948 film, Abbott and Costello Meet ...

17. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) Image Credit: Universal Pictures. The Mummy missed out on Abbott and Costello’s first Monster Mash, but he gets the spotlight here. The last of the ...

Universal Monsters, which evolved through the silent era, features iconic characters like Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy and ... comedies such as Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948 ...

He would team up with the pair again in 1955’s Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, their final monster film. 3An early version had Abbott and Costello fighting Mrs. Hyde Though we’ll never ...

as well as the previous Abbott and Costello monster-piece Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. In this 1936 sequel to Universal’s Dracula, the bloodsucker’s daughter (played by Gloria Holden ...

1955: Comedy double act Abbott and Costello meet The Mummy in, naturally, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy. It was kind of their thing; they had already met Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster ...

Even when these monsters ventured into comedy territory — like in Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy or Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein — they didn’t lose their edge. Instead ...

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