One Night in the Tropics
DVD review of One Night in the Tropics (1940), the first Abbott and Costello movie, starring Bud Abbot, Lou Costello
By all rights, One Night in the Tropics shouldn’t be an Abbott and Costello movie at all. It was a typical 1940’s romantic musical comedy, starring Allan Jones (perhaps most famous for Showboat as well as his work with the Marx Brothers in A Day at the Races and A Night at the Opera), Bob Cummings and Nancy Kelly. However, Universal Pictures had just put a pair of radio comedians under contract and wanted to give the pair, known as Abbott and Costello, a small part in the movie as comic relief, to see how they would do.
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