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Running Time
1 hour, 22 minutes
Country USA
Studio Universal
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Other Titles
• The Time of Their Lives
• The Ghost Steps Out (1946)
• Ghost Steps Out
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Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Comedy, Ghosts, Time Travel, Mistaken Identity, Haunted House, Spoof
Plot: Charles Barton directs one of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello's most imaginative screen efforts. The ghosts of Horatio Prim (Lou Costello) and Melody Allen (Marjorie Reynolds) haunt a nervous Abbott. The twosome were mistaken for traitors during the Revolutionary War and were shot, doomed to live on as ghosts. They have returned from the past to 20th Century New England to find a letter from George Washington that will prove their innocence. Melody was once the fiancée to Tom Danbury, who owned the estate and was a spy for the British. This foils the plans of the modern day, 1946, Abbott who would like to open the place to the public. Abbott sportingly plays two parts, one in each time zone, moving with ease from portraying a 1780s stick in the mud, to a psychiatrist who is a houseguest in the mansion in the 1940s. The story is replete with slapstick comedy, which culminates in the two uninvited guests driving the shrink out of his mind. The supporting cast offers up distinguished performances, especially Gail Sondergaard as Emily during the séance sequence.
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| Directed by |
Charles Barton
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, The Shaggy Dog, Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff |
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| Written by |
| Walter DeLeon
Ruggles of Red Gap, The Ghost Breakers, Scared Stiff |
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| Cast |
Bud Abbott
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Terror in the Aisles, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy |
 | Lou Costello
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man | | Binnie Barnes
Holiday, The Trouble with Angels, The Private Life of Henry VIII. | | | Lynn Baggett
Mildred Pierce, D.O.A., The Flame and the Arrow | |
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| Music By |
Milton Rosen
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Cult of the Cobra, The Creeper |
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