The best Bud Abbott’s comedy movies

Bud Abbott

Bud Abbott

02/10/1895- 24/04/1974
Today we present the best Bud Abbott’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Bud Abbott’s movies.
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 15/06/1948
  • Character: Chick Young
Two hapless freight handlers find themselves encountering Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man.

Africa Screams

Africa Screams
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/05/1949
  • Character: Buzz Johnson
When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking that his friend Stanley knows all there is to know about Africa, they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe in search of a fortune in jewels.

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 12/04/1951
  • Character: Bud Alexander
Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy injects himself rather than face the police. This sparks an idea for trapping gangster Morgan by having Lou fight champ Rocky Hanlon, with Tommy's invisible help

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion

Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/08/1950
  • Character: Bud Jones
Jonesy and Lou are in Algeria looking for a wrestler they are promoting. Sergeant Axmann tricks them into joining the Foreign Legion, after which they discover Axmann's collaboration with the nasty Sheik Hamud El Khalid. Bits include Lou's mirage sightings, one a New York newsboy ("they gave me a bad corner").

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
6.2/10
When the murder of an archaeologist puts a valuable medallion into their hands, Abbott and Costello waste little time in trying to sell it, only to find themselves pursued by police, a slinky adventuress, an Egyptian high priest, and the mummy himself.

Buck Privates

Buck Privates
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 31/01/1941
  • Character: Slicker Smith
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

Jack and the Beanstalk

Jack and the Beanstalk
5.8/10
A young boy trades the family cow for magic beans.

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd

Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd
5.7/10
Two hapless waiters in a tavern on the Spanish Main play cupid between aristocratic Lady Jane and tavern co-worker Bruce Martindale, but the two bumpkins mix-up a love letter with Captain Kidd's treasure map of Skull Island, leading to them being kidnapped and taken off to the notorious pirate's island.

The Naughty Nineties

The Naughty Nineties
7/10
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

Hold That Ghost

Hold That Ghost
7.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 08/08/1941
  • Character: Chuck Murray
Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

It Ain't Hay

It Ain't Hay
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/03/1943
  • Character: Grover Mockridge
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.

One Night in the Tropics

One Night in the Tropics
6.3/10
Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.

Rio Rita

Rio Rita
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 11/03/1942
  • Character: Doc
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

The Big Parade of Comedy

The Big Parade of Comedy
5.8/10
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/10/1945
  • Character: Buzz Kurtis
When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

Ride 'Em Cowboy

Ride 'Em Cowboy
6.5/10
Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.

Here Come the Co-eds

Here Come the Co-eds
6.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 02/02/1945
  • Character: Slats McCarthy
Molly (Martha O'Driscoll), her brother, Slats (Abbott), and his pal, Oliver (Costello), are taxi dancers at the Miramar Ballroom. As a publicity stunt, Slats plants an article about Molly claiming her ambition is to earn enough money to attend staid, all-girl Bixby College. Bixby's progressive dean offers Molly a scholarship. Molly accepts on the condition that Slats and Oliver come along too as campus caretakers. But the pompous Chairman threatens to foreclose on the school's mortgage if Molly isn't expelled. Together, the trio, with the help of some new friends, concocts a scheme to raise enough money to save the school. The plan involves a bet on the Bixby basketball team, which is playing in a game rated at 20 to 1 by the local bookie. But the bookie has other plans for their dough and hires a group of ringers to step in for the opponents. All is not lost, at least while Oliver has the chance to turn things around for his friends-one way or another.

Keep 'Em Flying

Keep 'Em Flying
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 27/11/1941
  • Character: Blackie Benson
When a barnstorming stunt pilot decides to join the air corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him. Since the two are Abbott & Costello, the air corps doesn't know what it's in for.

Buck Privates Come Home

Buck Privates Come Home
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 04/04/1947
  • Character: Slicker Smith
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.

Pardon My Sarong

Pardon My Sarong
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 07/08/1942
  • Character: Algernon 'Algy' Shaw
A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

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