Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein (1948)

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is a 1948 comedy / horror film in which characters played by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello deliver large heavy crates to a wax museum only to discover that the contents -- Frankenstein 's monster and Dracula -- are neither wax nor dead. Bela Lugosi stars as Dracula; Glenn Strange stars as Frankenstein's monster; and Lon Chaney Jr. makes an appearance as the Wolfman. The film was directed by Charles T. Barton from a screenplay by Robert Lees , Frederic I. Rinaldo and John Grant .

In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry .

It was released in the Universal Studio Comedy Legends DVD series, on August 29 , 2000 as Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein .

On original movie posters, its full name was Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein , however its on screen title is Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (without the "and"). This is the official title of the movie according to the Internet Movie Database .

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