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Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange
Directors: Charles Barton
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Release Date: August 29, 2000
Run Time: 83 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  (113 customer reviews)
Reader Reviews
Hello All I was just wandering through amazon and came upon this section and was just delighted to find "A&C meet Frankenstein" getting such nice compliments. I would like to let you all know that my father Robert Lees and his writing partner and an old family friend, Freddy Rinaldo, wrote this film. Freddy is no longer with us but my father is still, all of 92 years old, and is thrilled that after all these years you all like the film. A little addenda: You all must remember that A&C were essentially radio comedians, and it was from his training in radio that Costello had the bad habit of coming unglued if he didn't consistantly get laughs from the crew for each gag each take, no matter how many takes were involved in getting a scene right.. For him the crew was a live audience, so if he didn't take the house down, he would put in another piece of business and reinvent the scene on the spot until he did - and he was very inventive! I don't know how successfull they were, but they tried to take him aside and explain how important it was to actually follow the script!! Dad said that Lugosi enjoyed this aspect of Costello very much although I'm not so sure whether the director did, or the writers either for that matter. Both Dad and Fred respected the "horror/terror" genre in literature very much noting to me when I was younger how complex and interesting the form had become in the hands of writers like Dunsynane Tolstoy Lovecraft Saki,or Poe to name a few. Tolstoy wrote some strange and luminous things in this old form, once a short story about a Vampyre. But in those days and by the time Universal Studios got through exploiting it all, "The Wolfman meets Dracula, meets Frankenstein,meets the Mummy, meets the Andrews Sisters" well, lets just say that the bloom was well off the rose..... And so the object for them was not to parody the genre (at least the serious part) but to parody what Universal Studios had by this time done to the genre.... One of my favorite parts in the film is that sublimely dysfunctional chase scene at the end. And its true, they had a blast writing the movie.
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