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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Slapstick chases!... Pies in faces!... Shapely beauts in bathing suits!

1955★ 6.2 · 341h 20mComedy

Overview

Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.

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Cast

Bess Flowers
as Dancer in Restaurant scene (uncredited)

Lou Costello
as Willie 'Tubby' Piper

Hank Mann
as Prop Man

Marjorie Bennett
as Movie Patron (uncredited)

Donald Kerr
as Harvey (uncredited)

Roscoe Ates
as Wagon Driver

Frank Hagney
as Usher / Ticket Taker (uncredited)

Bud Abbott
as Harry 'Slim' Pierce

Fred Clark
as Joseph Gorman - aka Sergei Toumanoff

Joe Besser
as Hunter (uncredited)

Frank Wilcox
as Rudolph Snavely (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien
as Movie Patron (uncredited)

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6.2/ 10

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6.2

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Release date: 1955-02-02

Budget: $736

Runtime: 1h 20m

Genres

Comedy

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