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The Little Giant, starring Lou Costello and Bud Abbott - movie poster

Little Giant (1946)

Little Giant (1946) starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello

Little Giant was an enormous change for both Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. It is different from most of their comedies in several respects – Abbott and Costello are not a team, indeed are not even friends. Rather than relying on gags and verbal humor, it is a situational comedy, with an accent on physical humor. Although a comedy, it is much deeper than their standard comedies, with Lou Costello playing a character who tugs at your heart strings – and tugs hard.

Little Giant (1946)
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mari Blanchard

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars is not one of the better-known Abbott and Costello movies, which is too bad.   It’s more of a children’s film, similar to Jack and the Beanstalk – but with some “eye candy” for the adults as well.   The basic premise is that Orville (Lou Costello) is the oldest orphan at an orphanage, who is assigned to help Lester (Bud Abbott) load equipment onto an experimental spaceship.   Predictably enough, they accidentally launch into space; unpredictably enough, they land back on Earth in New Orleans, and mistake the annual Mardi Gras parade for an alien civilization on Mars.  They actually spend a fair amount of time interacting with the “aliens” at Mardi Gras, with the expected frightened reactions as the costumed revelers rotate their “heads,” etc.

Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Who Done It? Lou Costello, Bud Abbott

Who Done It?

Abbott and Costello’s comedy, Who Done It? A murder mystery set at a radio station, where Bud and Lou tangle with Nazis!

Who Done It?
In the Navy, starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Powell

In the Navy

In the Navy starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Powell, the Andrews Sisters, Claire Dodd, released May 30, 1941

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In the Navy - Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, police officer

 Bud Abbott  and  Lou Costello‘s follow up after the amazing success of  Buck Privates  was  In the Navy. Which actually did better than Buck Privates. Like their previous film, Shemp Howard and the Andrews Sisters provide a comic foil and musical interludes, respectively. In a nutshell, Abbott and Costello join the Navy. Then, they get involved in a romantic subplot with Dick Powell. Along the way, they do do some of their most famous routines. These include a version of the  con artist shell game using lemons, and  Lou demonstrating his clownish math skills by trying to prove that 28 divided by 7 equals 13 — this bit alone is worth the price of admission.

In the Navy
Here Come the Co-Eds - Bud Abbott and Lou Costello

Here Come the Co-Eds

In Here Come the Co-Eds, Abbott and Costello go to college – a woman’s college! After Lou wins a boxing match against Lon Chaney Jr. Bud bets his winnings on the school’s basketball team, in an attempt to save the school from foreclosure

Here Come the Co-Eds