Product Details

• Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Shay, Kirby Grant, Joe Sawyer
• Directors: Charles Lamont
• Writers: Frederic I. Rinaldo, John Grant, Robert Lees
• Producers: Howard Christie
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Universal Studios
• VHS Release Date: January 28, 1998
• Run Time: 77 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6303103804
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,402 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laughs!, April 28, 2000

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D. Bass (North Carolina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Abbott & Costello: Comin Round the Mountain [VHS] (VHS Tape)

As with most A&C films, this one included humor which can only be found in their movies. Being one of my favorites, "Comin' Round the Mountain" will have you laughing until your side hurts. It has a good story as well, laced, however, with many DUMB songs. I suppose having five or six singing pieces in a comedy was supposed to be popular back then, but it starts to get on your nerves after a while. I guess that's what they made the fast forward button for.

It's a very good one, however, and remains my favorite to this day. The funniest part would have to be the Voodoo gag in which the dialogue is as follows:

Costello: "What's she doing?"

AbbotT: "She's making Voodoo"

Costello: "I do?"

Abbott: "Voodoo!"

Costello: "I do what?"

It's full of laughs!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some big laughs sabotaged by too many songs, November 19, 1999

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Mike Swanson (Elkhart, IN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abbott & Costello: Comin Round the Mountain [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This could've and should've been one of A&C's funnier movies but whenever things get moving Dorothy Shay starts singing and the movie grinds to a halt. At least Costello mugs his way through most of the songs. The voodoo doll scene is by far the funniest and the scene where the hillbillies crawl into bed with Lou is a hit. Definitely worth a look for fans, but the songs are hard to endure.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not so good................, January 27, 2001

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Rodney Bowcock Jr. (California, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Abbott & Costello: Comin Round the Mountain [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I agree that this film has some fine gags in it, but it moves with the pace of a vaudville show. Bud and Lou will have a scene, then Dorothy Shay will sing a song, the Bud and Lou, the Dorothy........and so on and so on of about 75 minutes. It isn't an awful film, it just doesn't live up to the standards the boys set for themselves. For the most part they had grown out of this sort of pacing by around 1946, and this film seems to set them back quite a few steps. It took a few films before they'd find their stride again.