Release Date: Jun 1, 1945 Wide
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Abbott and Costello's The Naughty Nineties offers a million laughs and a nickel's worth of plot. Most of the film takes place aboard a 19th century showboat, owned by kindly Captain Sam (Henry Travers). Bud Abbott plays the showboat's leading man Dexter Broadhurst, while Lou Costello is handyman Sebastian Dinwiddie. A group of slick gamblers (Alan Curtis, Rita Johnson and Joe Sawyer) cheat Captain Sam out of his boat, turning the place into a floating gambling palace, but Dexter and Sebastian
Unrated, 1 hr. 12 min.
Jun 1, 1945 Wide
Universal Pictures
The movie where you can see the ?Who's on First? routine. Bud and Lou are two employees on a riverboat. The captain is duped out of partial ownership by some nefarious gamblers, and they take over the boat's operation. The comedy duo help to undermine the bad guys and get total control back to the captain. Several
October 20, 2009Watching this makes me sad and angry about comedy in the contemporary age. Never again will we get something this smartly written and so passionately executed
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