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The World of Abbott and Costello
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Wikipedia article
'The World of Abbott and Costello' is a 1965 American compilation film directed by Sidney Miller and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.
Plot
This film is a compilation of scenes from eighteen films that Abbott and Costello made for Universal Pictures between 1941 and 1955. Comedian Jack E. Leonard provides the narration for the film, which incorporates scenes from the following films:
*'Abbott and Costello Go to Mars'
*'Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion'
*'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein'
*'Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops'
*'Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy'
*'Buck Privates'
*'Buck Privates Come Home'
*'Comin' Round The Mountain'
*'Hit The Ice'
*'In Society'
*'In The Navy'
*'The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap'
*'Little Giant'
*'Lost in Alaska'
*'Mexican Hayride'
*'The Naughty Nineties'
*'Ride 'Em Cowboy'
*'Who Done It?'
Prior compilation appearance
A year earlier, MGM Pictures released a compilation film, 'MGM's Big Parade of Comedy', which includes a scene from the Abbott and Costello film, 'Rio Rita'.
Release
'The World of Abbott and Costello' was theatrically released by Universal Pictures in 1965 as part of a double feature with 'McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force'.
Home media
The film has been released twice on DVD: the first time, on 'The Best of Abbott and Costello Volume Four', on October 4, 2005, and again on October 28, 2008 as a bonus feature in the 'Abbott and Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection'.
See also
*List of American films of 1965
References
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