Bud Abbott and Lou Costello meet Frankenstein (1948) on Netflix
NR19481h 23mComedyFamilyFantasy
Two crates arrive for McDougal's House of Horrors: Dracula's coffin and the dormant Frankenstein monster. Chick Young and Wilbur Grey deliver them. A warning from Larry Talbot seems a prank.
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Plot summary
Chick Young and Wilbur Grey are baggage clerks at a railway station in Florida. Two crates arrive for McDougal's House of Horrors, one holding Dracula's coffin and the other the dormant Frankenstein monster. Wilbur watches Dracula rise and revive the monster, but Chick sees nothing and does not believe him, so McDougal has the pair arrested. Larry Talbot, who turns into a wolf when the moon rises, comes from London to find and destroy Dracula and the monster. Joan Raymond bails the boys out and Wilbur invites her to a masquerade ball. Dr. Sandra Mornay, who has drawn Wilbur's attention for Dracula's plan, tells Dracula that Wilbur's brain is the one she wants for the monster.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bud Abbott and Lou Costello meet Frankenstein (1948)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- While filming a scene where Frankenstein's monster throws Lenore Aubert through a window, an invisible wire sent her swinging back into camera range; Glenn Strange fell trying to catch her and broke his foot, so Lon Chaney Jr. applied the monster's make-up and played the throw himself.
- Director Charles Barton said Bud Abbott and Lou Costello fought him "like hell" during the shoot, and that the pair would leave home, fail to show up, or spend about three days playing cards on set.
- Lou Costello called the script, then titled The Brain of Frankenstein, "crap" and said his 5-year-old daughter could write better; producer Robert Arthur offered him a $50,000 advance on his percentage if he agreed to do the film.
- British Columbia initially banned the film and allowed it only after most of the Wolf Man's scenes were removed; Australia's release cut nearly every scene featuring a monster.
- Kim Newman said the film set the precedent that in films with multiple monsters, Dracula leads them, a plot element repeated in The Monster Squad, The Creeps, Van Helsing, Hotel Transylvania and Monster Family.
SPOILER
A week into shooting, producer Robert Arthur decided to change the film's ending to add a cameo by the Invisible Man.
