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1. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)

Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

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

Directors: Charles Barton, Walter Lantz | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi

Votes: 19,623 | Gross: $4.80M

2. Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Abbott and Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer, Dorothy Ford

Votes: 3,462

3. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two bumbling Americans stumble on the discovery of a lifetime when their search for a mummy leads them to a sacred medallion that holds the key to buried treasure.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara

Votes: 6,331

4. Who Done It? (1942)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Mystery

Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder after the station owner is killed during a broadcast.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patric Knowles, William Gargan

Votes: 2,718

5. Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Two bumbling American cops hunt for the mysterious Mr. Hyde in London, England.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Craig Stevens

Votes: 5,018 | Gross: $2.62M

6. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Family, Horror

Two bumbling private eyes help a man, wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible, to clear his name.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Nancy Guild, Arthur Franz

Votes: 6,117 | Gross: $3.38M

7. Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

Two employees of a secluded hotel investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Lenore Aubert

Votes: 4,238

8. The Time of Their Lives (1946)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, History

A psychiatrist stays in a mansion haunted by prankish ghosts from the Revolutionary War.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes

Votes: 3,690

9. Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)

Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical

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.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton, Hillary Brooke

Votes: 2,316

10. Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Two workmen accidentally launch a space rocket intended for Mars, and find mistakenly landing in New Orleans just the beginning of their misadventures.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Paige, Mari Blanchard

Votes: 3,611

11. Little Giant (1946)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Romance

Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Brenda Joyce, Jacqueline deWit

Votes: 1,413

12. Pardon My Sarong (1942)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy

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.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Bruce, Robert Paige

Votes: 2,412

13. It Ain't Hay (1943)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy

The horse of a street vendor is replaced by a racehorse.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Grace McDonald, Cecil Kellaway

Votes: 1,044

14. Africa Screams (1949)

Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck

Votes: 4,071

15. Hit the Ice (1943)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy

Two newspaper photographers get mixed up with gangsters at a ski resort.

Directors: Charles Lamont, Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Ginny Simms, Patric Knowles

Votes: 1,720

16. Buck Privates Come Home (1947)

Passed | 77 min | Action, Comedy, Family

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Tom Brown, Joan Shawlee

Votes: 2,160

17. Dance with Me, Henry (1956)

Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy

Two goofballs try to run a beaten-down old amusement park.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Gigi Perreau, Rusty Hamer

Votes: 909

18. The Naughty Nineties (1945)

Approved | 76 min | Comedy

When their captain is swindled out of his riverboat by a trio of gamblers, stage show star Abbott and his bumbling sidekick Costello must put things right.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson

Votes: 2,167

19. Abbott & Costello (1967–1968)

30 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

The animated further misadventures of the comedy duo.

Stars: Bud Abbott, Don Messick, Stan Irwin, John Stephenson

Votes: 379

20. Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)

77 min | Comedy, Musical

Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Shay, Kirby Grant

Votes: 1,463

21. In Society (1944)

Approved | 75 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.

Directors: Jean Yarbrough, Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marion Hutton, Kirby Grant

Votes: 2,128

22. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood (1945)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Frances Rafferty, Bob Haymes

Votes: 2,403

23. Bud and Lou (1978 TV Movie)

98 min | Biography, Drama

The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are examined.

Director: Robert C. Thompson | Stars: Harvey Korman, Buddy Hackett, Michele Lee, Arte Johnson

Votes: 253

24. Lost in a Harem (1944)

Passed | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

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

Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marilyn Maxwell, John Conte

Votes: 1,293

25. Lost in Alaska (1952)

76 min | Adventure, Comedy

Two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide. However, once they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder, they travel with the prospector to Alaska to help ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mitzi Green, Tom Ewell

Votes: 2,153

26. Mexican Hayride (1948)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance

Two con men selling phony stock flee to Mexico ahead of the law, where they run into a woman friend from their earlier days, who is now a bullfighter.

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Virginia Grey, Luba Malina

Votes: 1,332

27. The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Western

Chester Wooley (Lou Costello) and Duke Egan (Bud Abbott) are traveling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana en route to California. During the stopover, notorious criminal ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Main, Audrey Young

Votes: 1,264

28. Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy

Two Brooklyn wrestling promoters go to French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler but accidentally end-up in the French Foreign Legion.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patricia Medina, Walter Slezak

Votes: 3,126

29. Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance

Harry and Willie buy the Edison Movie Studio in the year 1912 from Joseph Gorman, a confidence man. They follow Gorman to Hollywood where, as stunt men, they find him directing movies as Sergei Trumanoff and stealing the studio payroll.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Fred Clark, Lynn Bari

Votes: 2,392

30. Rio Rita (1942)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, War

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson, John Carroll

Votes: 1,285

31. The Noose Hangs High (1948)

Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy

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

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Joseph Calleia, Leon Errol

Votes: 1,183

32. Fireman Save My Child (1954)

Approved | 79 min | Action, Comedy

A film intended for Bud Abbott and Lou Costello that ended up starring Hugh O'Brian and Buddy Hackett. Most of the footage was given over to Spike Jones and His City Slickers, about the all... See full summary »

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Spike Jones, Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Hugh O'Brian, Buddy Hackett

Votes: 91

33. Abbott and Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld (1994 TV Movie)

46 min | Comedy, Documentary

Jerry Seinfeld discusses some of his favourite Abbott and Costello routines.

Director: Daniel Helfgott | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Jerry Seinfeld, Bud Abbott Jr.

Votes: 221

34. 10, 000 Kids and a Cop (1948)

18 min | Short, Documentary

A documentary showing the constructive approach taken by the Lou Costello, Jr. Youth Foundation in Los Angeles toward prevention of juvenile delinquency. William Bendix, as a neighborhood ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, William Bendix, James Stewart

Votes: 77

35. The World of Abbott and Costello (1965)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy

A compilation of clips from 19 Abbott and Costello features: The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947), In the Navy (1941), Hit the Ice (1943), Who Done It? (1942), Abbott and Costello Meet ... See full summary »

Directors: Charles Barton, Erle C. Kenton, Charles Lamont, Arthur Lubin, William A. Seiter, Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Jack E. Leonard, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Tom Ewell

Votes: 281

36. Who's on First? (2009)

3 min | Short, Sport

A true to the original rendition of the comedy routine "Who's on First?" with an eight-year-old girl in the Costello role.

Director: Eric Burdett | Stars: Lana Esslinger, Mark Esslinger

Votes: 115

37. Abbott & Costello: Live & Hilarious! (1989 Video)

88 min | Comedy

The best collection of the famous duel's live performances.

Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

Votes: 13

38. The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1955)
Episode: Hosts: Abbott & Costello; guest stars: Lon Chaney, Jr., Jarmilla Novotna (1951)

59 min | Comedy, Romance

Abbott and Costello recreate some of their most famous skits including "Who's on First?" and "The Haunted Candle" and do a burlesque on the opera "Carmen."

Directors: Charles Friedman, Kingman T. Moore | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Jarmila Novotna, Lon Chaney Jr.

Votes: 40

39. The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950–1955)
Episode: Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Charles Laughton, Isabel Bigley, Johnny Conrad, Sid Fields, Joe Kirk, Milton Frome, Bobby Barber, Jill Kraft, Anita Anton, Alex Fossell, Helen Donaldson, Three Beaus & a Peep, Al Goodman & his Orchestra (1952)

Not Rated | 58 min | Comedy, Romance

Abbott Costello do several of their burlesque routines with their usual supporting players and play host to screen great Chales Laughton.

Directors: Charles Friedman, Fred Hamilton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Charles Laughton, Isabel Bigley

Votes: 14

40. Creepshow (2019– )
Episode: Model Kid/Public Television of the Dead (2021)

TV-MA | 52 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Joe's closest friends are the model toys of his favorite scary movie monsters; a public TV station is overwhelmed when the appraisal of an antique book accidentally summons a dark force.

Director: Greg Nicotero | Stars: Brock Duncan, Tyner Rushing, Jana Allen, Kevin Dillon

Votes: 1,151

41. Big Brain Tweeting (2016– )
Episode: "Who's on First?" Trump & Putin Style (2017)

Comedy

Trump and Putin's phone conversation is reminiscent of the famed "Who's On First?" sketch.

Director: Carlo Fiorletta | Stars: Carlo Fiorletta, Randy Johnson, Hilde Skappel