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Abbott & Costello: Here Come the Co-Eds [VHS]

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This may not be prime A&C but its pretty darn close. There are many classic routines here including the oyster in the soup, the Little Red riding Hood story (AKA Jonah & the Whale), and a long set piece where Lou destroys a kitchen. The film also benefits from having a great heavy: Lon Chaney Jr! This one also has more action than usual with a hilarious girls basketball game and a great and bizarre climactic chase. The best part of the show is when Lou wrestles Lon Chaney. You will laugh!

HERE COME THE CO-EDS
Universal Pictures
Release Date(s): February 2, 1945
Runtime: 90 minutes

Director:
Jean Yarbrough

Producer:
John Grant

Writing Credits:
John Grant
Edmund L. Hartmann
Arthur T. Horman

Cast:
Bud Abbott.....Slats McCarthy
Lou Costello....Oliver Quackenbush
Peg Ryan........Patty
Milt Bronson....Ring Announcer
Lon Chaney Jr...Johnson
Donald Cook.....Benson
Don Costello....Diamond
June Cuendet....Basketball Player
Charles Dingle..Jonathan Kirkland
Margaret Eversole..Basketball Player
Dorthory Ford....Bertha
Martha Garotto...Basketball Player
Marilyn Hoeck....Basketball Player
Joe Kirk.........Honest Dan
Carl Knowles.....Basketball Coach
Richard Lane.....Nearsighted Man
Ruth Lee.........Miss Holford
Martha O'Driscoll...Molly
Phil Spitalny....Himself
Sammy Stein......Tiger McGurk
Bill Stern.......Sports Announcer
June Vincent.....Diane
Anthony Warde....Timekeeper

Music by:
Edgar Fairchild
Frank Skinner

Cinematography by:
George Robinson

Film Editing by:
Arthur Hilton

Art Direction:
John B. Goodman

Other Crew:

Plot Summary:

At 90 minutes, "HERE COME THE CO-EDS" is one of the longest of Abbott and Costello's Universal starring vehicles. It manages to sustain a high comic content throughout.
The scene is a financially strapped girl's college, where professional dancer Molly (Martha O'Driscoll) lands a scholarship. Molly's manager/brother Slats (Bud Abbott) has arranged this as a means to publicize his sister's showbiz career, which angers the college's chairman of the board (Charles Dingle), who threatens to foreclose on the school. To keep tabs on Molly and also find ways of raising mortgage money, Slats and his pal Oliver (Lou Costello) take jobs as school caretakers, immediately running afoul of ill-tempered groundskeeper Johnson (Lon Chaney, Jr.) One of Slats' schemes involves a championship basketball game, in which Oliver, hypnotized into thinking that he's petite female student "Daisy Dimple", effortlessy sinks one basket after another. What ultimately saves the college is a concert by Phil Spitalny and His All-Girl Orchestra, featuring "Evelyn and Her Magic Violin".

ROUTINES & HILARIOUS MOMENTS:
Jonah And The Whale
Soup Routine

Trivia (...): (1)Lou Costello, in his youth a basketball player who specialized in dead-eye free-throw shooting, pumped in many of the shots himself during the film's basketball game.(2)This was the first of only two Abbott and Costello films produced by their writer John Grant.

In this film, Abbott & Costello get Abbott's sister enroled in an all girls school.The guys are brought along as caretakers. The best performance is from "The Man with A Thousand Faces" Lou Chaney. Some fair gags but not their best.

Bud and Lou are at it again. In this feature they are caretakers at an all-girls college. And save it from bankruptcy with the USUAL results. The FUNNIEST highlight of the film is the climatic basketball game scene. Lou dons drag to play for his school "BIXBY COLLEGE". After getting bonked on the head by a member of the rival team, he develops amnesia, and Bud then convinces him that he's "DAISY DIMPLE"- The World's Greatest female basketball star. [Note: ALL of the trick shots in the basketball game were ACTUALLY performed by Lou Costello himself]. 5 STARS once again to Bud and Lou.

This must be one of the best A&C movies ever... because my mother was an extra in the basketball game crowd. She was a coed at USC when this flick was filmed.

WORTH THE MONEY
WHO DINT LOVE THIS SHOW , THIS SHOW WAS GREAT
I LOVE THIS VHS, BRINGS BACK LAUGHTER AND MEMORYS AND YOU NEVER GET BORED WITH IT,

I've seen most, if not all, of the other Abbot and Costello movies that come before this. This one wasn't my fave, but it ranks as average compared to the others. Not the funniest, but it's Abbot and Costello, so I'll give it a good rating, lol. It's weird for me to like these movies because I'm a 14 year old girly teenager. I keep it a secret that I like these.

It's about two guys named Slats and Oliver who get enrolled in an all-girls school and try to save it from being closed. To do it, they end up having to raise a certain ammount of money, I think. OK, so I can't remember all of it. But I remember it in general. ^_^; It was still funny too. It was pretty good, overlooking that horrible scene near the end where there's a choir performance or something, and one of the girls lipsinks(or tries to lipsink) while a male voice is playing. It's so unbelievably bad that it's funny.

Overall, if you like black-and-white slapstick comedies, you'll probably like this one. :D

Down on their luck Abbott & Costello manage to find jobs as caretakers for an all girl school. Because of scandals and publicity the owner of the school threatens to stop funding so the school can go under. Abbott & Costello place a wager on a basketball game between their school and the undefeated champions school hoping to win enough money to save the school. In the meantime they have some incredibly funny scenes. Including when they first arrive at their room in the school and are told to clean it up, Costello manages to find himself in a very "sticky" situation presenting itself as one of the funniest scenes in any of the Abbott & Costello classic...also not to be missed Costello recreates one of the most popular 3 Stooges scenes in which Curly wrestles with some raw Oyster soup...Costello does fairly well in his imitation. Overall this picture is one of their best...a must have for any Abbott & Costello fan.

Classic 1945 Abbott & Costello comedy. Bud and Lou play caretakers at an all girls school, and turn on it's ear with zany results. BEST highlight of the film is the WILD AND ZANY basketball game sequence. Lou disguises himself as a girl to help out his Bixby College. During the game he gets bonked on the head and develops amnesia,and Bud convinces him that he's "DAISY DIMPLE", the WORLD'S GREATEST FEMALE BASKETBALL STAR. [Note: All the trick shots in the game were ACTUALLY performed by Lou Costello himself].