Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Family
Release Year: 1952
Country: USA
Runtime: 70
Rating: 6.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Sound: Mono
Taglines:Its a giant sized joy! A comic twist to a classic tale! Be happy go wacky! BUD and LOU in GIANTLAND! (original print ad - mostly caps)
Writing by: Nathaniel Curtis - (screenplay) (as Nat Curtis)
Pat Costello - (story)
Produced by: Lou Costello - producer
Pat Costello - executive producer
Alex Gottlieb - producer
Cast: Bud Abbott - Mr. Dinkel / Mr. Dinkelpuss
Lou Costello - Jack / Jack Strong
Buddy Baer - Sgt. Riley / The Giant
Shaye Cogan - Eloise / Princess Eloise / Darlene
James Alexander - Arthur / Prince Arthur / Troubador
Dorothy Ford - Receptionist / Polly
Barbara Brown - Mrs. Strong
David Stollery - Donald
William Farnum - The King
Johnny Conrad - Dancer
Mel Blanc - Farm Animals (voice) (uncredited)
Music: Heinz Roemheld
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A Movie star has triplets, but does not want her beloved public to find out. Has she made a mistake in hiring Jerry Lewis as the babysitter ?
Plot: Abbott & Costellos version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Instead of the usual "The characters and events depicted are fictitious, etc." disclaimer, are these four simple words, "This is a fable".
Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Jack mistakes the Giants shadow for his own, the shadow is directly in front of him. When the camera angle shifts to a side view of Jack and the Giant, their shadows are off to their right sides and cast much smaller.
Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Family
Release Year: 1952
Country: USA
Runtime: 70
Rating: 6.8 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Jean Yarbrough
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: Nathaniel Curtis - (screenplay) (as Nat Curtis)
Pat Costello - (story)
Produced by: Lou Costello - producer
Pat Costello - executive producer
Alex Gottlieb - producer
Cast: Bud Abbott - Mr. Dinkel / Mr. Dinkelpuss
Lou Costello - Jack / Jack Strong
Buddy Baer - Sgt. Riley / The Giant
Shaye Cogan - Eloise / Princess Eloise / Darlene
James Alexander - Arthur / Prince Arthur / Troubador
Dorothy Ford - Receptionist / Polly
Barbara Brown - Mrs. Strong
David Stollery - Donald
William Farnum - The King
Johnny Conrad - Dancer
Mel Blanc - Farm Animals (voice) (uncredited)
Music: Heinz Roemheld
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A Movie star has triplets, but does not want her beloved public to find out. Has she made a mistake in hiring Jerry Lewis as the babysitter ?
Plot: Abbott & Costellos version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Instead of the usual "The characters and events depicted are fictitious, etc." disclaimer, are these four simple words, "This is a fable".
Goofs: We know about 2 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Revealing mistakes: In the scene where Jack mistakes the Giants shadow for his own, the shadow is directly in front of him. When the camera angle shifts to a side view of Jack and the Giant, their shadows are off to their right sides and cast much smaller.
Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- William Farnums last movie.
- This is the first of only two color movies that Bud Abbott and Lou Costello made (the other being Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)). It begins in sepiatone and then changes to color.
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello made an independent, two-picture deal in which they agreed that this was to be "Lous film" and the next to be "Buds". They retained individual ownership of the respective films.
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