Time Of Their Lives

Buy This Item Time Of Their Lives by Universal Studios  Available from Amazon  $14.98  on 8-31-2008     THE TIME OF THIER LIVES <br /> Universal Pictures <br /> Release Date(s):August 16, 1946 <br /> Runtime: 82 minutes <br /> <br /> Director: <br /> Charles Barton <br /> <br /> Producer: <br /> Val Burton <br /> <br /> Writing Credits: <br /> Val Burton <br /> Walter DeLeon <br /> John Grant <br /> Bradford Ropes <br /> <br /> Cast: <br />Bud AbbottCuthbert Greenway/Dr. Ralph Greenway <br />Lou Costello.Horatio Prim <br />Kirk Alyn.Dandy <br />Lynn Baggett.June Prescott <br />Jess Barker..Tom Danbury <br />Binnie BarnesMildred Prescott <br />Robert BarratMajor Putnam <br />Vernon Downing..Leigh <br />Marjorie Eaton..Bessie <br />Ann GillisNora Leary <br />Selmer Jackson..Curator <br />Rex Lease.Sergeant Makepeace <br />Marjorie Reynolds.Melody Allen <br />John Shelton.Sheldon Gage <br />Gale SondergaardEmily <br /> <br /> Music by: <br /> Arthur Lange <br /> William Lava <br /> Milton Rosen <br /> <br /> Cinematography by: <br /> Charles Van Enger <br /> <br /> Film Editing by: <br /> Philip Cahn <br /> <br /> Art Direction: <br /> Jack Otterson <br /> <br /> Other Crew: <br /> <br /> Plot Summary: <br /> <br />Horatio Prim and Melody Allen become two ghosts who were mistakenly branded as traitors during the Revolutionary War. Their spirits were cursed to never leave the property of the Danbury Estate unless cleared of being traitors. Now in 1940's New England, with the help of Dr. Ralph Greenway and some guests, they search to retrieve a letter from George Washington which would prove their innocence and free their spirits. <br /> <br /> Routines & Hilarious Moments: <br /> Lou's problems with invisibility <br /> Ghost Lou toying with Bud <br /> <br />Trivia (): (1)This would be the first Abbott and Costello feature directed by Charles Barton, who is generally regarded as their best director.(2)The cost of the special effects made this the most expensive Abbott and Costello feature up to that time.(3)This was the second, and last, feature in which Abbott and Costello did not play as a team.(4)Lou Costello's practice of taking home props proved to be a major promblem for the special effects crew. Some of the special effects shot required the sets and props to remain intact for shooting with, and without, the actors. Reportedly on one occasion when Lou removed a prop, it required two days of re-shooting for the special effects department.(5)When this film was scheduled to be shot, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were in the midst of one of their feuds, and were not speaking to each other. Consequently, the two have very few scenes where they appear together. They were also feuding when they began to shoot "LITTLE GIANT" (1946), which is why they also have few scenes together in that picture.(6)Writing in the Saturday Evening Post in 1949, Bud Abbott said this was his favorite film role, because for a change he was the butt of all the punishment, instead of Costello. <br /> Reader Reviews The Time of Their Lives This film is set in 1780 Kings Point NY during the Revolutionary War. A servant is in love with Horatio the tinker, who has to pay her bond to free Nora from service. Tom Danbury expects to have a title if the war ends; he is working with Benedict Arnold to surrender West Point to the British. Maid Nora hears their plans and is abducted. When Horatio and Melody Allen try to escape, they are mistaken for traitors and shot. The General curses their burial spot. The abandoned Danbury mansion is burned to the ground. Then time passes to the current day. The Danbury mansion has been rebuilt to be as it was some 160 years earlier. Horatio and Melody discover the magic of electricity as they haunt the house. Emily the maid hears the ghosts; she is psychic. The two ghosts search for the missing document to prove their loyalty as true patriots. The inhabitants of the house are awakened by the noise. Is the new house haunted by the past? The special effects are amusing. Something supernatural seems to be happening. Modern science says seances don't work. Yet they hear knocks on the table in response to their questions! The voice of Tom Danbury comes from Emily and tells about a secret drawer with the missing letter. They figure out it was the library clock but there is a problem here. Dr. Greenway takes action to solve the problem, but there is a complication. There are comic scenes using the technology of those days. Then a happy ending as their curse is ended. Are the legends always true? The political viewpoints underlaying this story may make it the least comic of all the Abbot & Costello films. Bud and Lou are opponents, they do not work as a team. Can any long-lost document ever cause history to be rewritten?

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