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One of the greatest comedy teams of all time keeps one step ahead of the law and the criminals in this wild and wacky farce. Abbott and Costello, together for the last time, prove they're still on first with rapid-fire timing and gags galore! All Lou Henry (Costello) wants is a happy life with his two adopted children and to run Kiddyland, the local amusement park. But the local welfare board thinks he's an unfit father, and is determined to take the children away! To make things worse, his friend Bud (Abbott), always up to his eyes in gambling debt, has now run afoul of the mob and needs Lou's help. Can Bud and Lou get back on the merry-go-round, or will they end up in a real shooting gallery?
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.88 Ounces
- Director : Charles Barton
- Media Format : Closed-captioned, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC, Black & White
- Run time : 1 hour and 19 minutes
- Release date : May 17, 2005
- Actors : Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Gigi Perreau, Rusty Hamer, Mary Wickes
- Subtitles: : English, French, Spanish
- Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
- ASIN : B0007O38XK
- Writers : Devery Freeman, Lszl Kardos, William Kozlenko
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #162,349 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #13,499 in Kids & Family DVDs
- #18,343 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock{1959} (ALSO available in its, original, wide-screen) is the film (without Bud) that, literally, killed, the
beloved, Lou Costello.
A trivia note to those that think Lou was "ungrateful" in dumping Bud: The pay contract, initiated BY Lou, knew that a great comedian
NEEDS a great straight-man to succeed; the pay-split was, thus, 60% for Bud[1895-1974] and, 40% for Lou [1906-1959]!
In the movie years, 50/50... then, before the split-up, favouring Lou, 60/40. Rest In Peace, gentlemen!
HIGHLY recommended "Family-friendly" movie. Not THEIR best, and, certainly THEIR last; finally in its ORIGINAL widescreen aspect ratio!
Oh! I watched this on my 55" widescreen TV. It is, AS projected, originally, back in '56. The 2005 DVD version I compared it with has a
wee-bit more of the picture on it, top and bottom. I'll get to THAT in a moment. The picture is sharper. I clearly saw the word "DIXIE" at
the bottom of a paper cup in one scene. The sound was excellent! The music was a LOT better!
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The picture fills a widescreen television VERY nicely.
Getting back to my formatting statement. Early in the this movie, where Rusty Hamer, Lou Costello, and the Priest are talking in his rec-
tory office, the differences between aspect ratios are as follows:
" Full Screen " = You can see the top of the door frame. You can see the edge-lip of the priest's desk. Black bars right and left.
WIDESCREEN = Cannot see the top of the door frame. The desktop has no edge. The TV screen is filled without any black bars.
On MY television it is missing about an inch-and-a-half, top and bottom, of the screen. I'll accept the slight loss of video-info since
the evening sequence is SO clear that "midnight at Kiddyland" looks more like sunrise than sundown. The difference, literally, IS
night and day. NO important video information was lost. I gave my ten year-old DVD to a friend. T-h-i-s Blu-Ray is a real KEEPER!
A 66-Year-Old Kid,
Michael McCluskey
at least not until 1956, when their dreary swansong arrived.
because Lou Costello had as much of a gift for pathos as comedy, they came close a number of times. most obviously, Buck Privates Come Home concerns the duo's relationship with a war orphan. the premise could've been cloying and saccharine a' la Shirley Temple, but the film manages to neatly sidestep the pothole. there was also their dramatization of Jack & The Beanstalk, which some would say was by it's very nature just beggin' to fall flat in a puddle of rancid treacle. but somehow it doesn't.
so it could almost of been theorized that Bud and Lou were as good as immune to mush. but then came Dance With Me Henry, and we could kiss that theory goodbye.
Costello's character is the owner of a small-scale amusement park with a habit of taking in strays, among them a compulsive gambler played by Abbott. (thus enabling the gangster element to serve as perfunctory villains.) the story concerns Lou's attempts to maintain guardianship of a teenage girl and a seven-year-old boy, although it's hard to say why he should want to. the kids call him "Popsie," and that alone should frighten any diabetics away from the film.
there's even a priest who runs the orphanage, who'd like us to think he's Spencer Tracy in one of those Boys' Town movies.
it might be interesting to some that the boy is played by Rusty Hamer, shortly to be the protege' of Danny Thomas. but alas, he plays the part for sheer Shirley Temple-ness, with nary a hint of the adorable precociousness of his Make Room For Daddy/The Danny Thomas Show character.
Lou had been sickly for a bit, and it can't help but show. not only does he deliver a curiously low-key performance, but legend has it he adhered almost rigidly to the script. by most accounts, Costello was just an ad-libbin' fool, who could contrive some "bit of business" out of just about any prop in existence, and Bud's most valuable skill was his ability to reign Lou back in after he took off on one of his tangents. they glanced so sparingly at scripts, in fact, that it's been theorized that both had photographic memories. but the skill was redundant here.
in a misleadingly hopeful sign, the film reunited the team with one of their favorite directors, Charles T. Barton. back in the late '40s, Barton's collaborations with the duo had included two of their greatest hits, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Africa Screams, their most underrated effort, Abbott & Costello Meet The Killer Boris Karloff, and their most successful deviation from their usual formula, The Time Of Their Lives. you know a script is flawed when a director with that track record can't make it work.
even the title is a complete and utter non-sequitur. "Dance With Me Henry" (also known as "The Wallflower") by Etta James was an early rock & roll single who's day had come and gone long before the film was made. granted, his character is named Lou Henry, but that still leaves the question of where dancing with him comes in, exactly.
(curious about the song? you may of heard it. it's the song played on the diner jukebox in Back To The Future, while Biff and his thugs chase Marty around the town square on his makeshift skateboard.)
their penultimate cinematic exploit, Abbott & Costello Meet The Mummy, was quite well received at the time, and is now widely considered a return to form after a slate of passable but unexceptional films like Comin' Round The Mountain, Lost In Alaska, and Abbott & Costello Meet The Keystone Kops. and yet it marked the end of their association with Universal. an omen, maybe?
talk about shoulda quit while you were ahead!

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