- Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patricia Medina, Walter Slezak, Douglass Dumbrille
- Directors: Charles Lamont
- Writers: D.D. Beauchamp, John Grant, Leonard Stern, Martin Ragaway
- Producers: Robert Arthur
- Classification: U
- Studio: Universal
- VHS Release Date: 27 Jan 2003
- Run Time: 80 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00005K25J
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 20,039 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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If your a Abbott & Costello fan them you will love this film! It has alot of laughs an jokes which both actors give. I personally found this film more funnier then "Africa Screams". Watch out for the biding scene, where Lou Costello's stupidty gets them in a right mess ( as always), which is very funny and amusing! Its a classic never to be missed!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Abbott and Costello take to the desert--or is that a mirage?
13 Jun 2001
This time around Abbott and Costello are wrestling promoters Bud Jones and Lou Hotchkiss. Their star, Abdullah (Wee Willlie Davis), refuses to loose when they tell him to and he returns home to Algeria. The boys have to go after Abdullah and bring him back because they borrowed $5,000 from the syndicate to bring him to America in the first place. However, Abdullah's cousing, Sheik Hamud El Khalid (Douglas Dumbrille) and the evil Foreign Legionnaire Sgt. Axmann (Walter Slezak), have been raiding the railroad being constructed so they can get rich extorting money for protection. The bad guys assume Bud and Lou are spies for the railroad and order them killed. Lou has also upset the Sheik by outbidding him on six beautiful slave girls, including Nicole (Patricia Medina), a French spy. Anyhow, the boys end up enlisting in the Foreing Legion, narrowly avert death several times, and end up saving the day with ample help from Abdullah and Nicole.
This 1950 film, directed by Charles Lamont, was the 25th film featuring Abbott & Costello, then in their 15th year as a comedy team. The film suffers somewhat in comparison to Laurel & Hardy's 1939 classic "The Flying Deuces," but there are enough laughs in this one to make "Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion" at least an average comedy by the boys. Of course, to be fair, Costello had faced a pair of serious illnesses, rheumatic fever and a gangrenous gall bladder, in the months before this film was produced. The wrestling sequence remains the comic highlight of the film, along with the mirages the boys encounter in the desert. The bit between Lou and the Commandant where the word play of "we"/"oui" is merely cute. Still, this movie is arguably the second best Foreign Legion comedy of all time, for what that is worth.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
ONE OF ABBOTT & COSTELLO'S BEST FILMS
9 Sep 1999
Bud and Lou play the manager and trainer of a professional wrestler named Abdullah. When Abdullah decides to back to his native land, Bud and Lou give chase to bring him back to the U.S. and UNWITTINGLY enlist in the Foreign Legion.
The BEST highlight of the film has the boys lost in the desert, where they begin to experience a series of OUTRAGEOUS mirages. One has Lou 'meeting' a newsboy selling newspapers who shouts to people to read all about a water shortage. When Lou asks him what he's doing way out in the desert the kid replies: "Can I help it if they gave me a bad corner?"
This is Bud and Lou at their BEST.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Why Put Spmething on DVD Without Extras?
29 Jun 2000
Format:DVD
I am a big fan of Abbott and Costello, but this title is not one of their best films. Later this summer the superior ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN is slated for DVD release, and I hope it is a better reproduction. What is the point of releasing these old titles on DVD if there are no extras? MCA/Universal is very bad at this. At least the old box set laser discs of A&C films had the trailers included. A complete filmography would be nice. Another reviewer mentioned this release was supposed to be in widescreen, but that is doubtful because it was not a widescreen film when it was released in theatres almost 50 years ago. MCA/Universal, though, is notorious for being cavalier with their video releases and making mistakes. Read the liner notes put out by the studio for this title, and you'll see that they misdescribe events and get character names wrong. They also identify a fish as a crab! Abbott and Costello may have been low budget but their pertformances and routines were quality. Their films made a lot of money for the studio when the studio needed it, and I would expect the studio to have greater respect for the boys.
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