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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569794580
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 21, 2006
Running Time: 192 minutes
Sales Rank: 25330
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1944-12
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Product Description:
Buzz (Bud Abbott) and Abercrombie (Lou Costello) work in a Tinseltown haircut salon where they usually just take a little off the side. But why not take 10% off the top instead? So the fellas become movie talent agents setting in motion the lights-camera-comedy antics of Abbott and Costello in Hollywood including Costello being mistaken for a prop dummy during the filming of a saloon brawl Bud and Lou coping with insomnia and a pursuit finale in the cars and on the tracks of a roaring roller-coaster. You'll also find Lost in a Harem. Locked in is more like it as the two land in the hoosegow twice where their timing repartee and monkeyshines shine. Douglas Dumbrille plays the evil potentate who uses hypnosis against the boys ? making this a tale of Arabian daze and nights. The grand wazir orders you to watch!Running Time: 172 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 012569794580 Manufacturer No: 79458
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Rating: - The boys create chaos outside of their home studio
These 2 films were made for MGM (outside of their home studio of Universal). I remember spending weekend afternoons watching these 2 comedies on T.V. as a kid, and loving them.
"Lost In A Harem" seems pretty by-the-numbers for an Arabian spoof. However, it's brightened by, of course, Bud & Lou's hilarious routines as they tangle with an evil sultan. There's even an outrageously surreal moment in which a hypnotizing ploy goes awry and the boys believe they are termites (!!); they both begin eating the furniture!
My personal pick is "Abbott & Costello in Hollywood", a fun romp in which the boys are set loose in Tinseltown. This gives bumbling Lou plenty of opportunities to harass the likes of Rags Ragland, Lucille Ball, etc. Playing Hollywood barbers who become agents for an up-and-coming young actor, they run afoul of an established (and very jealous) actor who will stop at nothing to stay at the top of the heap. Highlights include Bud teaching Lou how to shave a customer (done with lather, a balloon & a blade--you can just envision the results!); Lou posing as a prop dummy in a Western saloon scene ( I laughed until I cried here!); Lou the "teacher" getting outwitted by a class of Hollywood kids; and a rousing slapstick rollercoaster finale.
I gave the set only four stars because the distributors never bothered to clean up the prints--they still look scratched & blurred in places. Nor are there any featurettes, etc., about the boys or the making of the films. ... Read More
Rating:  - More A & C from A & C
Not their best or most memorable work but certainly solid entertainment for A & C fans.
Rating:  - Classic A&C Humor, You Won't Find Anything Like It Today!
First, the issue of quality. The only quality defect I noticed on my copy were vertical white lines and specks due to scratches on the film throughout parts of the "Harem". As far as I could tell, the quality of the transfer of "In Hollywood" is flawless. I already had these two movies on DVD-R burnt from laser disc, and the quality of these releases is no worse than that of the laser disc. "Lost In A Harem" and "In Hollywood" are two movies Abbott & Costello did with MGM movies studios. The boys almost sign with MGM before their lucrative deal with Universal, so to appease MGM for their near-miss, Universal allowed Abbott & Costello to film three movies with for MGM. The other two being "In Hollywood", available on this disc, and " Rio Rita", mysteriously absent from this disc. The twenty-eight movies Abbott & Costello released under Universal can be found on four separate volumes available just about anywhere.
Lost In A Harem has the boys as Vaudeville performers stranded and looking for any kind of work in a faraway Arabian land, accompanied by beautiful blonde singer Hazel Moon, played by Marilyn Maxwell. All three are offered safe passage back home by Prince Ramo if they help him regain his thrown which was usurped by his villainous uncle Namativ. Throughout the movie, the boys dodge and evade all kinds of sandies and dunies who are threatening to kill them. In one instance the boys even pretend to be Hollywood talent scouts to gain safe entry into the palace. ... Read More
Rating: - GREAT DVD
WORTH THE MONEY
I LOVE THIS DVD, BRINGS BACK LAUGHTER AND MEMORYS AND YOU NEVER GET BORED WITH IT,
Rating: - Good pair of movies
I found this DVD to have very good viewing quality and no noticeable blue coloring at the top of my HDTV screen. Enjoyed both movies and a good addtion for your A&C library.
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