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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops
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| Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops | |
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 Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops Theatrical Poster |
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| Directed by | Charles Lamont |
| Produced by | Hoawrd Christie |
| Written by | John Grant Lee Loeb |
| Starring | Bud Abbott Lou Costello Fred Clark Mack Sennett Joe Besser |
| Music by | Joseph Gershenson |
| Editing by | Edward Curtiss |
| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
| Release date(s) | January 31, 1955 |
| Running time | 78 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $743,000 |
| Preceded by | Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953) |
| Followed by | Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) |
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops is a 1955 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello.
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Harry Pierce (Bud Abbott) and his friend, Willie Piper (Lou Costello), invest $5,000 in a motion picture studio. They are sold a deed to the Edison Studio by a con man, Joe Gorman (Fred Clark), who immediately skips town with his girlfriend, Leota Van Cleef (Lynn Bari). They head to Hollywood where he poses as a European director, Sergei Toumanoff, who plans to make a film staring Leota. Meanwhile, Harry and Willie, chase Gorman across the country in hopes of getting their investment back when they discover that the deed they were sold is worthless. They hop off a freight train near Los Angeles and stumble into the western film that Toumanoff is making. He is furious with their interruption, but the head of the studio that is making the film, Mr. Snavely (Frank Wilcox) hires them after being impressed with their stunt work.
Toumanoff plots to dispose of Harry and Wille before they find out who he really is, and he arranges for Willie to double for Leota during a dangerous airplane stunt. His cohort, Hinds (Maxie Rosenbloom), sabotages their parachute and arranges for live bullets to be fired at them from the other plane in the scene, however Harry and Willie manage to escape. Mr. Snavely views the film of them aboard the plane and decides that they would make a great comedy team and hires them and assigns Toumanoff to direct them. Toumanoff is against the idea, but Snavely knows that Toumanoff is really Gorman and he has arranged for everyone that has been swindled to get their money back if Toumanoff agrees, which he does. Gorman and Leota then go about robbing the studio safe of $75,000, but are discovered by Harry and Willie and they begin a chase. They studio's Keystone Kops are asked by Harry and Willie to assist in the chase, as they believe that they are real policemen. The Kops decide to follow them, because they think that they are part of their team, and the chase makes it way out onto the city streets until they arrive at the airport where Gorman and Leota are captured. Unfortunately, the money is blown away by the wind generated from the plane's propeller.
- It was filmed from June 7 through July 9, 1954.
- After the film was completed, Universal wanted to rename it Abbott and Costello in the Stunt Men, as they didn't think that the "Keystone Kops" were relevant anymore. However, in October, 1954, they relented and agreed to use the "Keystone Kops" name.[1]
- Costello's daughter, Carole, plays a theater cashier.
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- ^ Furmanek, Bob and Ron Palumbo (1991). Abbott and Costello in Hollywood. New York: Perigee Books. ISBN 0-399-51605-0
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