Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955) on Netflix
Approved19551h 20mComedyRomance
Harry and Willie buy a studio deed from con man Joe Gorman, who vanishes. They trace him to Hollywood, where he poses as director Sergei Toumanoff and they become stunt doubles.
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Plot summary
Willie Piper is watching a silent melodrama in a nickelodeon and is thrown out for being too demonstrative. Outside, Harry Pierce shows him a newspaper advertisement: men are raising $5,000 to invest in a movie studio, the exact sum the two friends have. Joe Gorman sells them the deed to the West Orange Studio, telling them he owns two and the travel has become too much, though the lot is Edison's original studio. Harry and Willie set out for California to recover their money, riding with an old wagon driver, hopping a train and getting thrown off a cattle car. Gorman, meanwhile, travels west as the European director Sergei Toumanoff, with his girlfriend Leota Van Cleef, who wants a career in pictures. The pair land on his western set and are hired for their stunt work.
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- Bob Jellisonas Movie Patron (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955)
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- After Universal-International finished the film it wanted to rename it Abbott and Costello in the Stunt Men, judging the Keystone Kops no longer relevant; in October 1954 the studio relented and kept the Kops name.
- The opening scene, in which Lou Costello's Willie Piper watches the melodrama Eliza and the Bloodhounds in a theater, used stock footage from Universal's 1927 silent version of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
