Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy |  | Director: Charles Lamont
Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Dan Seymour
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  30 reviews
Sales Rank: 20844
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: MCAD20573D
ISBN: 0783233590
UPC: 025192057328
EAN: 9780783233598
ASIN: B00005LC4C
Theatrical Release Date: June 1955
Release Date: August 28, 2001
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After 15 years of hit movies for Universal Studios, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello left the studio in the twilight of their partnership with the last of their monster comedies. Decked out in desert safari gear, the boys go looking for a job with an Egyptologist and wind up in the middle of a conspiracy concerning the murdered professor, an ancient mummy, and a magical medallion that, true to form, bumbling Costello manages to eat for dinner. Marie Windsor, the boss lady of a gang of treasure hunting crooks, dresses in a harem outfit to vamp for our chubby little hero, and the eternally stiff Richard Deacon hilariously plays the leader of an Egyptian mummy cult like a high school principal decked out for Halloween. Directed by longtime collaborator Charles Lamont, it's a typical Abbott and Costello farce with disappearing corpses, mistaken identities, and wacky word plays ("Take your pick" riffs on "Who's on first" with garden tools). While not as clever or spirited as their original monster mash Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the vaudeville veterans are still masters of the double take and fast-talk patter, and the picture climaxes with a screwball chase that involves not one, not two, but three mummies skittering through the phoniest looking pyramid this side of community theater. You were expecting realism? The boys appeared together once more on film, in Dance with Me, Henry, and then split up. --Sean Axmaker
Product Description
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/22/2006 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr
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 abbot and costello meet the mummy January 1, 2009
Bruce R. Goddard
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummythis is a terrible movie. the dialogue was inane, the slapstick was idiotic, drawn out and repetitive and the acting so wooden to the point where the only reason this sorry excuse for a movie was made was to capitalize and profit on the abbot and costello name. as opposed to the top quality of the characters, plot and monsters found in "abbot and costello meet frankenstein", this cheap rip-off doesn't even have a decent mummy character or any talented actors and special effects for that matter. if you must see this movie check it out from the library. buying or renting it is a waste of money.
 Excellent! November 30, 2008
Moira E. Bunn
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Product was in great condition when received. Excellent on timing. Came in just in time for Halloween.
A Classic November 19, 2008
J. Blazer (Cypress, CA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Abbott and Costello have been a Halloween Tradition in our house. Good old Classic movie fun. Amazon always comes through with the quality, speed of delivery and customer service.
 Short on laughs October 4, 2008
Kona (Emerald City)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
While in Egypt, Peter and Freddie (Abbott and Costello) get involved with a walking mummy, his cult followers, and a cursed medallion.
That's a pretty short summary, but honestly, that's all there is to this disappointing comedy. Abbott and Costello were past their prime in 1955 and the film shows it. The jokes aren't much unless you think endless punchlines with "mummy" instead of "mommy" and snake charmers with rubber snakes are funny. Abbott yells too much at Costello and they both are barely going through the motions; in fact, they call each other "Bud" and "Lou" throughout. The ridiculous casting of Richard Deacon ("Mel Cooley" in The Dick Van Dyke Show) and Michael Ansara (TV's "Cochise") as Egyptian mummy-worshippers makes the story even more far-fetched. It's about thirty minutes too long and plays like a bad SNL skit. Definitely not one of their best.
Great Movie September 29, 2008
Phyllis Maggio (Bay Shore, NY)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I searched for this movie in local stores and found nothing. I don't know why I bother looking anywhere other than Amazon.
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