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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

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NameAbbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Directed byCharles Barton
Produced byRobert Arthur
Written byRobert Lees
Frederic I. Rinaldo
John Grant
StarringBud Abbott
Lou Costello
Lon Chaney, Jr.
Bela Lugosi
Glenn Strange
Music byFrank Skinner
CinematographyCharles Van Enger
Editing byFrank Gross
Distributed byUniversal Studios
Release dateJune 15, 1948 (US)
Running time83 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$760,000
Preceded byHouse of Dracula (1945)
The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)
The Noose Hangs High (1948)
Followed byMexican Hayride (1948)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)

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'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein' (which has the onscreen title 'Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein') is a 1948 American comedy horror film directed by Charles Barton and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. It is the first of several films where the comedy duo meets classic characters from Universal's horror film stable. In this film, they encounter Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and the Wolf Man, while subsequent films pair the duo with the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Invisible Man. On a TV special in the early 1950s, the two did a sketch where they interacted with the latest original Universal Studios monster being promoted at the time, the Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). The film is considered the swan song for the "Big Three" Universal horror monsters � Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster � although it does not appear to fit within the loose continuity of the earlier films.

The film was re-released in 1956 along with Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed this film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry, and in September 2007, Readers Digest selected the movie as one of the top 100 funniest films of all time.

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