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To: wtc911

I loved A & C in “Keep “Em Flying”, with Martha Raye. It was basically a war propaganda film, but really enjoyable.


201 posted on 12/12/2009 6:56:49 PM PST by 6323cd (I Am Jim Thompson)
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To: 6323cd
A&C made eight films in the first two years of their movie careers...

One Night in the Tropics

Buck Privates

In the Navy

Hold That Ghost

Keep 'em Flying

Ride 'em Cowboy

Pardon My Sarong

Who Done It?

The only clinker was Pardon My Sarong. After these were finished two things happened that killed the force of nature that was Lou Costello...he almost died from rheumatic fever and his two year old drowned in the backyard pool.

After this Lou was just going through the motions, you could see it. Another killer was some Studio Exec decided that Lou was too grown-up. In the first few movies he smokes cigars, is a con-artist and a bit of a skirt chaser. none of that appears after In the Navy and by the time they were doing their A&C Meet the monsters flicks they had reduced Costello to an idiot.

The first eight are available in a DVD set. My grandson (8) and I have watched them all over and over again in the past three years. He has his favorites and I have mine but we just don't get tired of the really good ones.

217 posted on 12/12/2009 7:41:52 PM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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