Thursday, May 24, 2018

Jack and the Beanstalk (1952), 6- Color

Abbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.
1h 10min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 12 April 1952
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Ford.
Johnny Conrad ... choreographer

Watched on AmazonPrime; also on a megapack.

5 songs in the Soundtracks.

Typical A&C entry, with A cruel/violent to C more than once.

I didn't watch closely enough to say much here. Having the M&L series active makes A&C a double chore. I'm glad the Stooges didn't do musicals, and Laurel & Hardy are retired (last film '51; plus I deliberately skipped the handful of their films that have music/al tag.)

Amazingly, all the antecedents listed on the Connections page are shorts. Perhaps that's part of the problem here: the material is perhaps better for a short than a feature.

Warner, dir. Yarbrough; 6-