Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops

Feb 2, 1955

1h 20m

★ 6.1

Slapstick chases!... Pies in faces!... Shapely beauts in bathing suits!

Overview

Harry and Willie are scammed into buying the Thomas Edison studio lot by a man named Gorman. They decide to follow Gorman's trail to Hollywood where, unbeknownst to them, he has taken the identity of a foreign film director. The lads wind up as stunt doubles in film the which Gorman is now shooting, while the conman tries to have the bungling pair done away with before they realize who he really is.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Universal International Pictures

Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops Trailers

Cast

Harry 'Slim' Pierce

Bud Abbott

Willie 'Tubby' Piper

Lou Costello

Joseph Gorman - aka Sergei Toumanoff

Fred Clark

Leota Van Cleef

Lynn Bari

Hinds

Maxie Rosenbloom

Cameraman

Harold Goodwin

Wagon Driver

Roscoe Ates

Mack Sennett

Studio Guard

Heinie Conklin

Prop Man

Hank Mann

Mike (uncredited)

Joe Devlin

Jason (uncredited)

Paul Dubov

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