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Five-disc set includes: Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)Universal tossed their most popular fiends-Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's monster-at their top comedy team for this slapstick horror romp, with deliverymen Chick (Bud Abbott) and Wilbur (Lou Costello) trying to dodge Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), who wants to put Wilbur's brain inside the Monster's noggin. With Lon Chaney Jr., Glenn Strange, Jane Randolph. 83 min. BW/Rtg: NR Abbott And Costello Meet The Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)Funny and suspenseful outing for Bud and Lou casts them as a pair of hotel employees-house detective Casey Edwards and bumbling bellboy Freddie Phillips-who are determined to discover why corpses keep popping up around the Lost Caverns Resort Hotel. Is supposed Swami Talpur (Boris Karloff) really the killer... or is it someone else? With Alan Mowbray, Lenore Aubert, Donna Martell. 84 min. BW/Rtg: NR Abbott And Costello Meet The Invisible Man (1951)Private eye school graduates Bud Alexander (Bud Abbott) and Lou Francis (Lou Costello) are hired by a boxer to help clear him of a murder rap put on him by a crooked promoter, but it takes a doctor's invisibility serum and a turn in the ring by "Lou the Looper" to bring the crooks to justice. Chuckle-filled spoof of Wells' classic novel co-stars Arthur Franz, Nancy Guild, Sheldon Leonard, William Frawley. 83 min. BW/Rtg: NR Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1953)Bud Abbott is Slim and Lou Costello is Tubby, two American cops sent to London who find soon themselves in the throes of terror when they become mixed up with an equal rights leader (Helen Wescott), her reporter boyfriend (Craig Stevens), and the menacing Dr. Jekyll (Boris Karloff)-and his even more menacing alter ego, Mr. Hyde (Eddie Parker). With Reginal Denny. 77 min. BW/Rtg: NR Abbott And Costello Meet The Mummy (1955)In their final film for Universal Pictures, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello get wrapped up in riotous comedy when they become stranded in Cairo, Egypt. There the bumbling buddies hire on as traveling companions to Dr. Zoomer (Kurt Katch), who knows of a secret medallion embossed with a hidden treasure map currently in the possession of Klaris (Eddie Parker), the living mummy. With Richard Deacon, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara. 80 min. BW/Rtg: NR Standard; Soundtrack: English LPCM mono; Subtitles: English (SDH); audio commentary; photo gallery; theatrical trailers. Region Free