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Writers:
Harry Ruskin (screenplay) &
John Grant (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
December 1944 (USA) more
Tagline:
A Show That Chases the Blues From Start to Finish! more
Plot:
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle. full summary | add synopsis
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Abbott & Costello Meet An MGM Musical with Jimmy Dorsey more (9 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Bud Abbott | ... | Peter Johnson | |
| Lou Costello | ... | Harvey Garvey | |
| Marilyn Maxwell | ... | Hazel Moon | |
| John Conte | ... | Prince Ramo | |
| Douglass Dumbrille | ... | Nimativ | |
| Lottie Harrison | ... | Teema | |
| Lock Martin | ... | Bobo (as J. Lockard Martin) | |
| Murray Leonard | ... | The Derelict | |
| Adia Kuznetzoff | ... | Chief Ghamu | |
| Milton Parsons | ... | Crystal Gazer | |
| Ralph Sanford | ... | Mr. Ormulu | |
| Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra | ... | Themselves |
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89 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Finland:S | USA:Approved (PCA #10118) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Sweden:15
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Leon Askin's film debut. more
Quotes:
Prince Ramo:
[from inside his jail cell] Don't worry! I'll get you out!
Peter Johnson:
[being locked up in a nearby cell] Who's gonna get YOU out?
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Featured in 100 Years of Comedy (1997) (V) more
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Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves) more
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Lost In A Harem is one of the best Abbott & Costello films for 3 reasons: One, unlike most of their films in the 1940s which were produced at Universal Studios (and available on DVD in a Universal set), this one was done at MGM with that studios usual higher production standards, including a few spectacular musical numbers. Two, it is one of only about a dozen filmed appearances of big band great Jimmmy Dorsey, who performs, with his band, a number called John Silver ("15 men on a dead man's chest") which I haven't found elsewhere, and a few other songs. Three, the "Pokomoko" routine ("Slowwwwly I turned, step by step I crept upon him . . .") is done to perfection by A&C with Murray Leonard as the Derelict, which I've always remembered as one of my favorite A&C routines since I was ten years old. Furthermore, there's a real live giant (Lock Martin), full costumes and exotic sets as you would expect from MGM, a magic skit by A&C, hypnotism, a fine performance from Douglas Dumbrille as the bad guy, and more good music. I would rate it below Abott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, In The Navy, In Society, The Naughty Nineties, and perhaps 3 or 4 others, but definitely in their top ten or twelve. But since it's not in the Universal set, it's not available on DVD anywhere.