Abbott And Costello Meet The Keystone Kops [1955]

Classic comedy from Abbott and Costello, great take on the classic Universal Monster film. Cross talking at its best I can easily see why they were the top comdy partnership of the time. Really enjoyed it and look forward to buying more.Now for the tech, I purchased as download, the film quality visionally and sound was very good.

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very funny film

A classic comedy loved by all the family.

Note: Amazon have mixed up reviews for different sets and movies, this is a review of the Dr Jekyll movie.Entertaining and charming entry in the Abbott and Costello meets movies sees horror great Boris Karloff play the Dr Jekyll role, he takes a drug which of course makes him turn into the horrific Hyde and seek vengeance on anyone that gets in his way. Kooky and spoofy of course as we see A and C in London as policemen, bumbling around, getting sacked and then trying to get their jobs back by capturing Jekyll and Hyde.Interesting opening scenes about the suffragette movement, only annoying aspect of movie is role played by Craig Stevens, who has been so badly written as the hero male that when Costello accidently hits him over the head, you kind of feel relived. Movie has a stronger first half than second but there's still plenty of goofiness to enjoy. Karloff plays it straight and while some say that a lot of the humour just isn't here, try and stay slack jawed when a cat is trapped by a severed head prop and then starts to move- classic.

Last and least in the studio's initial series of releases, the final inevitably disappointing volume of Universal's Abbott and Costello collection doesn't include the It Ain't Hay, the rights to which were still in limbo at the time (it wouldn't make it to DVD until the US released Complete Universal Collection -  Abbott & Costello: Comp Universal Pictures Coll [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC ] and  Abbott & Costello: Complete Universal Pictures [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC ] - but not its UK equivalent, forcing many who had bought the previous three volumes to double dip just for the one film, which Universal subsequently issued as a standalone DVD-R issue). Also, unlike the previous three volumes which each offered eight films, despite the cover promising '6 classics,' this only contains four films (one a cut and paste compilation) while the other two are documentaries.Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a near career low for the boys at Universal: even the mouse sequence isn't particularly funny, and that's the highlight of the weakest of their monster pictures. The less said about the recreation of Victorian London on Universal's overlit Transylvanian sets the better. Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is a definite step up: a long way from their best and let down by the weakest of their chase finales (did the Keystone Kops ever do anything else but fall off the wagon?), but at least Mack Sennett gets to throw a custard pie, and there's something perversely appealing about the villain's girlfriend being named Lee Van Cleef... Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy makes a fitting finale to their Universal career, coming up with enough laughs to go down easy even if it is mainly just spins on previous routines.The World of Abbott and Costello is a clumsy compilation feature from 1965 cashing in on the unexpected success of Robert Youngson's silent compilations like Days of Thrills and Laughter. There's some good material in there, mostly in the last third, but Jack E. Leonard's irritating narration is the pits: he can't even get the name right, constantly talking about some guy called Lou Castella. Rounding out the numbers are a disappointing TV special hosted by Jerry Seinfeld that is too fond of rapid cutting to give the extracts from the boys' routines their due and a rather decent half hour featurette on their monster movies teaming them up with the studios iconic monsters that was also included on the original US DVDrelease of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.

(The Best of Abbott & Costello, Volume 4 (Abbott & Costello Meet Dr. Jekyl & Mr. Hyde / Abbott & Costello Meet the Keystone Cops / Abbott &Costello Meet the Mummy / Abbott & Costello Meet Jerry Seinfeld / Abbott & Costello Meet the Monsters / The World of Abbott & Costello)[DVD])Well, at a combined price of $104,U.S., for four of these----Aaagh!----DOUBLE-SIDED, different, volumes [missing "IT AIN'T HAY"],all I can say is just spend your money on the REGULAR [one-sided] discs in the GIGANTIC------it's BIG, it's REALLY BIG------8"x7"box with 28 of the 36 A&C movies... all The Universal Studio Ones, and bonuses, DE-luxe... on F-I-F-T-E-E-N (15!) DVDs!Buy THE COMPLETE ABBOTT & COSTELLO UNIVERSAL PICTURES COLLECTION,instead!_____________________________________________________________________I bought all four of the Volumes, and always had SKIPPING problems. The new set is notonly flawless, but cheaper!_____________________________________________________________________

This is a fabulous comedy film so I would give this 5 stars just because I really like these guys.