Product Details

• Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer, Shaye Cogan
• Format: Color
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Goodtimes Home Video Corp
• Run Time: 78 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000T30TQS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #615,452 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Abbott & Costello star in this Jack and the Beanstalk. 1952. The comedy talents of Abbott & Costello are put to splendid use in this zany version of the classic fairy tale. Hired to babysit a bratty 8 year old, Jack (Costello) starts reading Jack and the Beanstalk, but the big words are too much for him, so the youngster reads it for him as Jack falls asleep and dreams he is the Jack of the fairy tale. An enchanting bit of whimsy to be cherished by all ages.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Beans!, February 11, 2010

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This review is from: Jack and the Beanstalk (VHS Tape)

This red box GOODTIMES videotape of JACK AND THE BEANSTALK (1952) was one of the first I ever purchased, way back in 1986. The dub is slow speed, with a degraded image and linear, hissy audio, taken from a stressed, faded part amber/part Supercinecolor film.

Supercinecolor was always an iffy proposition, similar in quality to pre-1935 Technicolor's 2-strip process. Oh it's color all right, but strange hues abound.

I'd recommend searching out this motion picture from the best possible label, not easy as it's been PD right from the beginning.


A bit of history:
Late in their UNIVERSAL days, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello decided to independently produce two color movies. The first was Bud's: ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET CAPTAIN KIDD* (also long in publc domain), the second being Lou's kid's fable, a far more charming work. In it, he gets to sing:

I fear nothing when I am in the right!
Who ever pushes me around will find me full of fight!
I fear nothing when I do nothing wrong
And so I toddle on my way and sing a merry song!

I'll be defiant and be obstreperous
If any giant should try and salt-and-pepper us!
And I'll rise up, up to my fullest height
'Cause I fear absolutely nothing when I'm in the right!

A man believes what he believes
And by these principles a man must stand
A time will come for rolled-up sleeves
And it might help to have a fist on hand!

If I believe that I am right
There's only one thing to be done
I don't go looking for a fight
But I have never run away from one!

But only fools will take a dare
And there are things that only fools defy
If I smell trouble in the air
I hold my breath until the breeze blows by!

I'll snort defiance like some rhinoceros
Afraid of giants, now, isn't that preposseros!
I find courage a thing of great delight!
Sing fee-dilly-ay and fee-dilly-aye with steady hand and steely eye!

I fear nothing when I am in the right!


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