Classic comedy duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello meet a menagerie of monsters in four horror comedies coming to 4K Ultra HD next month from Kino Lorber.
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet The Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy will be released on November 25.
Each film has been newly scanned in 4K from the 35mm original camera negative with Dolby Vision/HDR.
1948’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is directed by Charles Barton and written by Robert Lees, Frederic I. Rinaldo, and John Grant.
Special features:
- HDR/Dolby Vision Master from a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (new)
- Audio Commentary by Film Historians C. Courtney Joyner and Phoef Sutton (new)
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Toby Roan (new)
- Theatrical Trailer
Abbott and Costello, as railroad baggage clerks, receive a strange shipment—the last remains of Dracula and Frankenstein’s Monster. But this deadly duo is still very much alive. So when the shipment arrives at the House of Horrors, the Monsters are not in their crates but have disappeared to a secret hideaway island.
Blamed for the disappearance, Abbott and Costello follow their trail to the island, where not only do they meet up with Dracula and the Monster, but a Mad Scientist who wants to switch Costello’s brain with that of the Monster. With everyone chasing each other, the Wolf Man shows up to scare them all. In the end everything works out: Costello finds romance and the Monsters find their final resting places…or do they?
Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, Glenn Strange, Lenore Aubert, Jane Randolph, and Charles Bradstreet also star.
1951’s Abbott and Costello Meet The Invisible Man is directed by Charles Lamont and written by Lees, Rinaldo, and Grant.
Special features:
- HDR/Dolby Vision Master from a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (new)
- Audio Commentary by Hats Off Entertainment’s Joe Ramoni (new)
- Audio Commentary by Film Historians Paul Anthony Nelson and Lee Zachariah (new)
- Theatrical Trailer
Recent detective school graduates Bud and Lou are minding their new business when accused killer Tommy Nelson bursts into their office. Proclaiming his innocence, he convinces the two to get him to his beautiful fiancée Helen.
Just as the police arrive to investigate, Tommy injects himself with invisibility serum being developed by Helen’s uncle. With his unseen assistance, Tommy convinces Lou to go undercover as a boxer to help flush out the real killer.
Nancy Guild, Arthur Franz, Adele Jergens, Sheldon Leonard, and William Frawley also star.
1953’s Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is directed by Lamont and written by Lees and Grant.
Special features:
- HDR/Dolby Vision Master from a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (new)
- Audio Commentary by Film Historians Kim Newman and Stephen Jones (new)
- Audio Commentary by Film Historians Tom Weaver and Richard Scrivani
- Theatrical Trailer
American policemen Slim and Tubby are in London to study local police methods. In the process, they run into a beautiful young suffragette , her rugged boyfriend and her evil uncle Dr. Jekyll, who transforms himself into Mr. Hyde, the terror of the city.
Boris Karloff, Helen Westcott, Craig Stevens, Reginald Denny, and Eddie Parker also star.
1955’s Abbott and Costello Meet The Mummy is directed by Lamont and written by Grant.
Special features:
- HDR/Dolby Vision Master from a 4K Scan of the 35mm Original Camera Negative (new)
- Audio Commentary by Film Historians C. Courtney Joyner and Phoef Sutton (new)
- Audio Commentary by Film Historian Toby Roan (new)
- Theatrical Trailer
When Pete and Freddie, a couple of Americans stranded in Cairo, overhear an archaeologist chatter about discovering a legendary mummy, they decide to apply as chaperones for the corpse back to the United States. But when they arrive at the archaeologist’s home, strange happenings are afoot.
First of all, the archaeologist has been murdered. Then, the mummy seems to have disappeared. And on top of that, the boys become owners of a sacred medallion that holds the key to the location of an ancient buried treasure—one that many would kill for! Now it’s up to the bumbling Americans to preserve the legend of the mummy and keep the treasure from falling into the wrong hands.
Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara, Peggy King, Richard Deacon, Mel Welles, and Eddie Parker also star.
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