Abbott & Costello: Comin Round the Mountain

Buy This Item Abbott & Costello: Comin Round the Mountain by Universal Studios  Available from Amazon  $14.98  on 11-17-2008     I agree that this film has some fine gags in it, but it moves with the pace of a vaudville show. Bud and Lou will have a scene, then Dorothy Shay will sing a song, the Bud and Lou, the Dorothy..and so on and so on of about 75 minutes. It isn't an awful film, it just doesn't live up to the standards the boys set for themselves. For the most part they had grown out of this sort of pacing by around 1946, and this film seems to set them back quite a few steps. It took a few films before they'd find their stride again. Reader Reviews The film begins with a comic song for cafe, society. The Great Wilbert pops up on stage. He is a magician who escapes from his chains. Wilbert may be the heir to a buried treasure back in Kentucky. So they return to the land of the Winfields and the McCoys. [Was this the inspiration for 'The Beverly Hillbillies'?] Dorothy sings another comic song. There is a funny skit about target shooting. Conflict over the results restart a feud. [This tells about popular culture of that time.] How many can share one bed? Wilbert learns about their marriage customs. Can love be created by a potion? "Voodoo." "Who do?" There is a joke about drinking that potion. Can a marriage end a feud between families? The staged conflict goes on and leads to comedy at the old mine shaft. There is a quick and forced end to this drama. Did a need for money force Abbott and Costello into overexposure by too many films? [This is one film that seems less funny than when I first saw it.]

Abbott & Costello: Comin Round the Mountain Available from Amazon Price: $14.98 Updated on 11-17-2008.

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