Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions. Director:Charles Lamont |
|
| 0Share... |
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions. Director:Charles Lamont |
|
| 0Share... |
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Bud Abbott | ... |
Al Stewart
|
|
| Lou Costello | ... |
Wilbert Smith
|
|
| Dorothy Shay | ... |
Dorothy McCoy
|
|
|
|
Kirby Grant | ... |
Clark Winfield
|
|
|
Joe Sawyer | ... |
Kalem McCoy
|
|
|
Glenn Strange | ... |
Devil Dan Winfield
|
|
|
Ida Moore | ... |
Granny McCoy
|
|
|
Shaye Cogan | ... |
Clora McCoy
|
| Margaret Hamilton | ... |
Aunt Huddy
|
|
|
|
Guy Wilkerson | ... |
Uncle Clem McCoy
|
| Robert Easton | ... |
Luke McCoy
(as Bob Easton)
|
|
|
|
Virgil S. Taylor | ... |
Jasper Winfield
|
|
|
Russell Simpson | ... |
Judge
|
| Hank Worden | ... |
Target Judge
|
|
| Jack Kruschen | ... |
Gangster in Night Club
|
|
Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions.
In my rewatching of the Abbott and Costello series that I loved in my youth, this is by far the worst of the series that I have rewatched. The problem is not in the subject material. The problem is in the script, the execution and the performances. Abbott and Costello have never been more bland and the songs from the Manhatten Hillbilly take up seemingly half of the movie's length. The song about a half an hour in goes on forever. The old granny is fun but isn't allowed to do enough. The "courtship" between Costello and the 14 year old hillbilly girl is ghoulish. Bud Abbott is non-existent and the hillbilly clans do nothing whatsoever. There are a few chuckles and nothing more. The opener and the conclusion are awful. On the bright side, Glenn Strange is great here and Costello's duel with the witch is funny. Costello's "christening" is a gut buster. But that's it. Has a little of the same flavor as The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap but isn't in the same league, much less the same ballpark.