The Best of Abbott & Costello, Vol. 2 (Hit the Ice / In Society / Here Come the Co-Eds / The Naughty Nineties / Little Giant / The Time of Their Lives / Buck Privates Come Home / The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap) DVD
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This is my family's second purchase of a volume in the series. We have been especially pleased with both of them. This one is wonderfully charming for us, because it contains several movies by Abbott and Costello that we had never seen before. And of course, since it contains the Naughty Nineties, You get the wonderful routine about who's on first. One of the things that we enjoy so much about these movies is that they are accessible to my nine-year-old daughter. She absolutely enjoys them and watches them over and over again. When you consider some of the things she could be watching on TV, the thought of her watching Abbott and Costello instead is absolutely thrilling. I recommend this volume and volume 3 to anyone who loves good wonderful slapstick comedy that is absolutely perfect for any age group in the family.
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This is the best of the best. Almost every classic routine can be found in this collection and The Time of Their lives is considered by many to be the finest movie that Bud and Lou made.
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It'd be a stretch to say that Abbott and Costello were the greatest comic actors ever, but they did put out a series of films that were both financially successful and a lot of fun to watch. Volume 2 of the Abbott and Costello Franchise Collection provides eight movies featuring the pair and demonstrates how consistently entertaining they could be.
On Disc One, Side One is Hit The Ice and In Society. Hit the Ice has the two accused of bank robbery. Fleeing the police, they wind up at the same ski lodge where the real crooks are. This one concludes with a ski chase unlike any in a James Bond movie. In Society has the pair as plumbers accidentally invited to a country estate where, during a weekend party, a valuable painting is to be unveiled. When the painting is stolen, trouble is sure to follow, ending up with another chase, this time involving a fire truck.
On Disc One, Side Two is Here Come the Co-Eds and The Naughty Nineties. In the former, Bud and Lou wind up working at a women's college. To raise funds to save the school, they bet on the basketball team, and Lou winds up impersonating one of the players. This one also has Lon Chaney, The Naughty Nineties has Bud and Lou trying to save a riverboat from falling into the hands of crooks. This one is especially notable for having the full "Who's on First" routine, their single most well known bit of comedy.
Disc Two, Side One features a couple of the most unusual A&C movies, as the pair appear in the movies, but rarely together. In Little Giant, Lou is an aspiring vacuum cleaner salesman and Bud has a pair of minor roles as two of Lou's bosses. A showcase for Lou Costello, it has more sentimentality than most of their movies. In The Time of Their Lives, Lou actually dies. He spends most of the movie as a ghost from the Revolution out to clear his name. Bud once again has dual roles, one in the 1780s and one in the 1940s.
Disc Two, Side Two starts with Buck Privates Come Home, a sequel to the first movie featuring them, Buck Privates. The pair come back from the war with a little orphan girl, and the two jump through hoops trying to keep her from being deported back to France. The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap is a western. Lou apparently kills a man (of course, it's a frame-up) and is punished by having to take care of the dead man's fearsome wife and kids. This has the unusual effect of making him the toughest person in Wagon Gap: no one is willing to kill him lest they be stuck with the widow instead.
While none of these are excellent movies, none are bad either. In fact, they are all above average and the set rates four stars. If you've never seen Abbott and Costello, this collection is a good place to start.
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The "Best of" series is a great way to collect almost all of their movies - Great movies for all ages - I recommend all four of them
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I have been searching for The time of thier lives for decades. Finally found it on this multi movie. such a great movie, couldnt figure out why so many people didnt know of it.
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