I’m away on assignment at the Toronto International Film Festival today, but I couldn’t let my birthday today pass without at least a little something about the Blu-ray debut of Charles Barton’s ...

They found fame and fortune in Hollywood, but New Jersey is the birthplace of Abbott and Costello. Both members of the comedy team -- which starred in 36 film comedies between 1940 and 1956, including ...

This week, on Saturday Nov. 23, Svengoolie will make you die laughing when he shows 1948’s Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein on his MeTV series Svengoolie Classic Horror & Sci-Fi Movie. In the ...

Horror and comedy have always been strange but welcome bedfellows. They work within the same emotional dynamic, the windup of tension followed by a release, though one deals with punchlines and the ...

The incongruous pairing—the late-’40s equivalent of dropping the American Pie gang into a Saw movie—really shouldn’t have worked, but it resulted in a highly entertaining film that became a huge hit ...

At the end of the 1948 monster mash classic Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, the hapless heroes played by Lou Costello and Bud Abbott take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief. Not only have ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WGN Radio’s Dave Plier sits down with Chris ...