1. SKI BUMS
Bud & Lou are the ski instructors at an exclusive
mountain resort,
which is hilarious, considering neither one of them can ski!
The instructors at a rival resort cause them no end of embarrassment
and difficulty, which finally ends in an all-out downhill race, the
actions
of which cannot be described in the human language!
Suffice it to say Lou & Bud win, but not without the help of a
grumpy bear and two irate raccoons!
The movie ends with Bud & Lou standing at the finish line to
greet
their rivals with a "Hey, fellas, what kept you?"
2. IT'S DA RABBIT! IT'S DA RABBIT!
Returning to an older plot, Lou plays a bumbling scientist and
Bud his
sponsor. Lou is trying to find a new kind of 3D projection device. One
of his instruments explodes, and when the smoke clears Lou finds he has
brought four cartoon characters to life...a well known rabbit, duck,
and
the hunter and his dog who is always chasing them.
An hilarious series of adventures ensue, as Bud & Lou, with the
cartoon characters, search for more of the rare material necessary to
return
the characters to their own world, with a considerable bit of
interference
from the police, the FBI, and the CIA.
It is a perfect blend of cartoon madness and human antics.
1967
1. THE MARKSMAN
In this zany frontier flick Lou plays a Davy Crockett-type
character
who, though he is somewhat of a coward is the best shot in all of
Tennessee.
Bud is his guitar-playing off-key singing sidekick. They travel from
village
to village making their living by outshooting all comers.
Trouble begins when Lou mistakes the great War Chief Two Tommyhawks'
headdress for a turkey, and shoots it off the Chief's head.
A zany Indian war ensues, with no less than three battles in which
everyone is scared to death but no one manages to get seriously hurt.
Peace is finally made when Lou agrees to marry the Chief's ugly
daughter.
To his utter joy he finds the Indians prefer big, husky women, and the
girl the Chief considers ugly is a ravishing beauty! As they walk down
the aisle Lou looks back over his shoulder and whistles.
2. CHICAGO'S FINEST
Bud & Lou play two bumbling Chicago policemen of the
1950s, who
get into no end of trouble as they patrol their beat.
Lou falls in love with the female leader of a local gang and his zany
efforts to reform her make the movie. He finally succeeds and the movie
ends with an hilarious wedding attended by policemen and gangsters
alike.
Very good A & C.
1968
1. THE MARKSMAN ON THE MISSISSIPPI
The hilarious crackshot heads for New Orleans down the
Mississippi,
and along the way encounters the notorious Mike Fink, and in a
rolicking
river journey the travelers fight river pirates, Indians, and a gang of
irate bar girls.
The movie's most hilarious scene is a fight in the middle of one
village's
muddy street. This is side splitting Abbott & Costello at its
very
best!
2. 8 BALLS
Lou & Bud play the owners of a run down pool hall, who
are about
to be evicted if they can't make their bank payments. In desperation
Lou
contacts an old buddy he hasn't seen in years- the famous pool hustler
Chicago Fats, and talks him into having a hustler's championship in
their
pool hall.
Owing Lou a favor, Fats agrees, and some of the world's best pool
players
gather for the tournament, much to the dismay of the bank president who
wants Bud & Lou's property to build a shopping center.
He does everything he can to sabotage the tournament, but in their
usual hilarious style Bud & Lou save the day.
1969
1. PING PONGS
Lou plays a world champion ping pong player and Bud plays his
coach.
They go off to the world championships where Lou falls in love with his
chief competition, a bright-eyed little Chinese girl. A back hand
courtship
ensues as the ping pong balls fly, to the dismay of both Bud and the
Chinese
girl's coach. But love cannot be denied. In the semi-finals both Bud
and
his opponent lose, and while the crowd is confused they make a break
for
freedom with their coaches close behind.
A whacky chase through Hong Kong ensues to finally end at the American
Embassy, where the frustrated Chinese stomp and rave. In the movie's
last
scene the two lovers kiss as the stars and stripes flutter over their
heads,
and The Star-Spangled Banner fills the air.
2. THE SON OF MARKSMAN
Lou plays the bumbling son of the famous frontier marksman,
who can't
hit the broadside of a barn.
His companion, played by Bud, Hawkeye Magee, is the real marksman in
the duo, and often covers for his companion's inability. They have many
hilarious adventures before finally winning a big farm in a bet and
settling
down.
1970
1. THE ANDREA DORIANS
In this first take off of the popular science fiction series
about a
star ship and its crew, the starship finds the disaster recorder of the
colony ship The Andrea Doria, that disappeared one-hundred years ago,
on
its five year mission. Following its instructions the starship finds
the
world now inhabited by the descendants of its survivors. The original
survivors
were children raised by the ship's mechanical nannies. All the ship's
records
and learning tapes were destroyed. The only thing the Andrea Dorians
had
left on which to base their society was one of the crewman's collection
of Abbott & Costello movies.
The starship's crew establish contact and meet the planet's leader
called Abbott, and his chief Council called Costello. A series of
hilarious
adventures ensue, as the world is threatened first by two of the
starship's
worst enemies, who soon regret ever having anything to do with The
Andrea
Dorians!
The famous starship leaves, giving The Andrea Dorians educational tapes
to help their historical records and to update their medical
procedures,
little realizing what they have done.
2. THE PIG'S DILEMMA
Bud & Lou buy a piece of land out in the country, and
while exploring
it fall into a strange cave and come out in a cartoon-like universe
where
they encounter a famous pig and all his pals, who are being invaded by
ferocious winged lizards who are apprently responsible for opening the
gateways through which all manner of beings are falling!
Bud & Lou help the stuttering porker and his pals overcome
their
strange invaders, destroy their dimensional access machine, and return
to their own world in the nick of time. They must make a mad dash to
safety
as the cave and their entire property sinks. At the end of the movie
the
boys are making a fortune showing tourists the world's biggest
sinkhole.