In the 1940s and 1950s, the popular comedy team of Abbott and Costello made several movies that spoofed the classic Universal horror films of the 1930s.
The narrative premise of these pictures was always the same, detailing how Abbott and Costello “meet” Hollywood’s classic monsters, and the consequences of these encounters.
In this 1953 vehicle, one of their weaker ones, the comedians go to space in the company of gangsters escaping from prison. The first sight the see upon landing in Venus are sexy, minimally dressed women (by standards of the 1950s, of course).
You can spot in small part the boxomy Anita Ekberg, a Swedish actress who would become an internationa sex icon, especially after appearing in Fellini’s masterpiece, La Dolce Vita.
The direction of the film by Charles Lamont is pedestrian, but the entire tale runs only 76 minutes.
For a better vehicle of the popular team, see Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948).
Directed by Charles Barton, in this tale, Abbott plays Chick Young and Costello is Wilburn Grey, railway porters who deliver the “undead” bodies of Frankenstein’s Monster (Glenn Strange) and Dracula (Bela Lugosi) to a wax museum where the corpses are revived.
