List of the best Lou Costello movies: The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock(1959), The Time of Their Lives(1946), Hold That Ghost(1941), Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff(1949), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein(1948), Buck Privates(1941), Buck Privates Come Home(1947), Pardon My Sarong(1942), Little Giant(1946), The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap(1947), It Ain't Hay(1943), The Noose Hangs High(1948) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1959
75 Minutes
In one of his rare performances without Bud Abbott, Lou Costello plays a rubbish collector and inventor. When radiation in a nearby cave turns his girlfriend into a giantess, antics ensure ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1946
82 Minutes
Horatio Prim
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Marjorie Reynolds Binnie Barnes John Shelton Jess Barker Gale Sondergaard Robert Barrat Donald MacBride Ann Gillis Lynne Baggett
A psychiatrist stays in a mansion haunted by prankish ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
Comedy
USA
1941
86 Minutes
Ferdinand Jones
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Joan Davis Richard Carlson Mischa Auer Evelyn Ankers Marc Lawrence Shemp Howard Ted Lewis The Andrews Sisters
After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.
Comedy
USA
1949
84 Minutes
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Boris Karloff Lenore Aubert Gar Moore Donna Martell Alan Mowbray James Flavin Roland Winters Nicholas Joy
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Comedy
USA
1948
83 Minutes
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Bela Lugosi Lenore Aubert Jane Randolph Glenn Strange Frank Ferguson Lon Chaney Charles Bradstreet Howard Negley
director railway inspector clerk insurance investigator passenger campy madcap haunted house florida dangerous job monsters friendship weird science discovery adventure escape 1940s
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
Comedy
USA
1941
84 Minutes
Herbie Brown
Bud Abbott Lou Costello The Andrews Sisters Lee Bowman Alan Curtis Jane Frazee Nat Pendleton Samuel S. Hinds Harry Strang Nella Walker Leonard Elliott
salesman soldier drill instructor hostess playboy valet hilarious witty boot camp theater united states military redemption love triangle father/son relationship escape rivalry transformation love 1940s
Two sidewalk salesman enlist in the army in order to avoid jail, only to find that their drill instructor is the police officer who tried having them imprisoned.
Comedy
USA
1947
77 Minutes
Herbie Brown
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Tom Brown Nat Pendleton Joan Shawlee Beverly Simmons Don Beddoe Don Porter Donald MacBride Lane Watson William Ching
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 ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1942
84 Minutes
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Virginia Bruce Robert Paige Lionel Atwill Leif Erickson William Demarest Samuel S. Hinds Four Ink Spots
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.
Comedy
USA
1946
91 Minutes
Benny Miller
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Brenda Joyce Jacqueline de Wit George Cleveland Elena Verdugo Mary Gordon Pierre Watkin Donald MacBride Victor Kilian
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1947
78 Minutes
Chester Wooley
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Marjorie Main George Cleveland Audrey Young Gordon Jones William Ching Peter Thompson Olin Howland Bill Clauson Billy O'Leary
Chester Wooley (Lou Costello) and Duke Egan (Bud Abbott) are traveling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana en route to California. During the stopover, notorious criminal ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1943
80 Minutes
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Grace McDonald Patsy O'Connor Leighton Noble Cecil Kellaway Eugene Pallette Eddie Quillan
Adaptation of the Damon Runyon story 'Princess O'Hara', in which the horse of a street vendor is replaced by a racehorse.
Comedy
USA
1948
77 Minutes
Tommy Hinchcliffe
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Joseph Calleia Cathy Downs Leon Errol Mike Mazurki Jack Overman Fritz Feld Vera Martin Joe Kirk Matt Willis
Two window washers mistakenly receive, and lose, $50,000 belonging to a shady bookie, and have only forty-eight hours to retrieve the money.
Comedy
USA
1944
75 Minutes
Albert Mansfield
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Marion Hutton Kirby Grant Ann Gillis Arthur Treacher Thomas Gomez George Dolenz Steven Geray Margaret Irving Murray Leonard
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1941
86 Minutes
Heathcliff
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Martha Raye Carol Bruce William Gargan Dick Foran Truman Bradley Charles Lang William B. Davidson Frank Penny Loring Smith
When a barnstorming stunt pilot joins the Air Corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1942
86 Minutes
Willoughby
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Dick Foran Anne Gwynne Samuel S. Hinds Richard Lane Judd McMichael Ted McMichael Joe McMichael Mary Lou Cook Johnny Mack Brown
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 ... See full summary »
Musical, Comedy
USA
1945
87 Minutes
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Peggy Ryan Martha O'Driscoll June Vincent Lon Chaney Donald Cook Charles Dingle Richard Lane Joe Kirk Anthony Warde
Two bumblers become caretakers at an all-girls college. During their misadventures, the duo raise money to free the school from its traditionally-minded landlord.
Comedy
USA
1950
80 Minutes
Lou Hotchkiss
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Patricia Medina Walter Slezak Douglas Dumbrille Leon Belasco Marc Lawrence Tor Johnson Wee Willie Davis Fred Nurney
Two Brooklyn wrestling promoters go to French Algeria in search of a famous Algerian wrestler but accidentally end-up in the French Foreign Legion.
Comedy
USA
1949
79 Minutes
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Hillary Brooke Max Baer Shemp Howard Joe Besser
hunter friend explorer pretty woman man madcap playful thrilling africa jungle new york city mine deception expedition treasure hunting friendship wild animals assumed identity adventure quest
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
Comedy
USA
1952
70 Minutes
Captain `'Puddin' head'` Feathergill
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Charles Laughton Hillary Brooke Fran Warren Bill Shirley Leif Erickson Syd Saylor Rex Lease Frank Yaconelli
pirate captain waiter aristocrat rival amusing madcap haiti island tavern pirate ship pirates treasure hunting schemes romance seafaring adventure quest 17th century
Rocky and Puddin' Head are waiting tables at an inn on Tortuga when a letter given them by Lady Jane for delivery to Martingale gets switched with a treasure map. Kidd and Bonney kidnap them to Skull Island to find said treasure.
Comedy
USA
1951
82 Minutes
Lou Francis
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Nancy Guild Arthur Franz Adele Jergens Sheldon Leonard William Frawley Gavin Muir Syd Saylor Billy Wayne
Rocky and Puddin' Head are waiting tables at an inn on Tortuga when a letter given them by Lady Jane for delivery to Martingale gets switched with a treasure map. Kidd and Bonney kidnap them to Skull Island to find said treasure.
Comedy
USA
1956
80 Minutes
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Gigi Perreau Rusty Hamer Mary Wickes Ted de Corsia Ron Hargrave Sherry Alberoni Frank Wilcox Richard Reeves Paul Sorensen
Two goofballs try to run a beaten-down old amusement park.
Musical, Comedy
1941
85 Minutes
Pomeroy Watson
Two sailors (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) help a famous singer (Dick Powell) who joins the Navy to escape female fans. With the Andrews Sisters.
Comedy
1953
77 Minutes
Orville
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Mari Blanchard Robert Paige Martha Hyer Horace MacMahon Jack Kruschen Jean Willes Joe Kirk Jack Tesler Harold Goodwin
A spaceship takes two buddies (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) to Mardi Gras and then Venus, where men are not allowed.
Comedy
1948
77 Minutes
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Virginia Grey John Hubbard Luba Malina Pedro de Cordoba Fritz Feld Tom Powers Pat Costello Frank Fenton Chris-Pin Martin
Comedy
1942
75 Minutes
Lou Costello Patric Knowles William Gargan Louise Allbritton Don Porter Jerome Cowan William Bendix Mary Wickes Thomas Gomez Ludwig Stossel
Aspiring radio writers pull off a convincing masquerade as detectives on the case of a murdered network president.
Comedy
1955
79 Minutes
Willie "Tubby" Piper
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Fred Clark Lynn Bari Max Rosenbloom Frank Wilcox Henry Kulky Sam Flint Harold Goodwin Roscoe Ates Paul Dubov
Two suckers (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) follow a con man (Fred Clark) to 1912 Hollywood, where they get even as stuntmen.
Comedy
1952
76 Minutes
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Mitzi Green Tom Ewell Bruce Cabot Emory Parnell Jack Ingram Rex Lease Joe Kirk Minerva Urecal Howard Negley
Comedy
1944
89 Minutes
Harvey Garvey
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Marilyn Maxwell John Conte Douglas Dumbrille Lottie Harrison Lock Martin Murray Leonard
Two magicians (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) and a prima donna (Marilyn Maxwell) help a desert prince gain his throne.
Musical, Comedy
1942
91 Minutes
"Wishy"
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Kathryn Grayson John Carroll Patricia Dane Tom Conway Peter Whitney Arthur Space Joan Valerie Dick Rich Barry Nelson
Two ranch hands (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) and a radio singer foil Nazi spies in a Texas border town.
Comedy
1953
77 Minutes
Tubby
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Boris Karloff Craig Stevens Reginald Denny Helen Westcott John Dierkes Henry Corden Marjorie Bennett Carmen de Lavallade
Policemen Slim (Bud Abbott) and Tubby (Lou Costello) go to London and meet a doctor (Boris Karloff) and his evil alter ego.
Comedy
1955
79 Minutes
Freddie Franklin
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Michael Ansara Marie Windsor Dan Seymour Kurt Katch Richard Deacon Richard Karlan Mel Welles Ed Parker
Musical, Comedy
USA
1940
82 Minutes
Costello
Allan Jones Nancy Kelly Bob Cummings Mary Boland Bud Abbott Lou Costello Peggy Moran William Frawley Leo Carrillo Don Alvarado
Jim "Lucky" Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if ... See full summary »