Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is a 1955 comedy film directed by Charles Lamont and starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.
Plot
Willie Piper is in a nickelodeon watching a silent film: "Eliza and the Bloodhounds" a melodrama which ends with a mother and small child escaping in a snowstorm across a frozen river from a pack of hounds. He gets thrown out for being too demonstrative in the film. His friend Harry Pierce is waiting outside, he shows him an advert in a newspaper looking for people to invest $5,000 in a motion picture studio, exactly the amount of cash they have.
More details
| author | John Grant |
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| director | Charles Lamont |
| editor | Edward Curtiss |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | adopt arrest break in brooklyn california comedy team con man create edison\'s black maria film director film set film star fly freight train keystone kops load los angeles motion picture studio movie studio new identity new jersey nickelodeon old man silent film sleep stolen money stunt double stunt flying trap true identity wait west west orange west orange studio |
| musicBy | Henry Mancini Herman Stein William Lava |
| producer | Howard Christie |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |
| theme | filmmaking parody |