Bud Abbot and Lou Costello put out a lot of comedy classics in the forties, such as HOLD THAT GHOST,BUCK PRIVATES COME HOME, WHO DONE IT, HIT THE ICE, and THE NAUGHTY NINETIES, but this one, done in 1948, is probably their best. The title understates the film, for Bud and Lou not only encounter the Frankentstein Monster(Glenn Strange)but also the Wolf Man(Lon Chaney Jr. of course) and Count Dracula(Bela Lugosi). Bud and Lou play delivery men, Chick Young and Wilbur Gray, who are assigned to deliver two crates, supposedly containing the remanins of Dracula and the Monster, to MacDougall's House of Horrors as new exhibits. What the boys don't know is that Dracula is alive, and has placed himself and the Monster in a dormant condition in order to sneak into the country. The Count, with the help of Dr. Frankenstein's book "The Secrets of Life and Death," hopes to revive the Monster, but he wants a new brain for it, because, as he tells his assitant Sandra(Lenore Aubert), he doesn't want to "repeat Frankenstein's mistake, and revive a vicious unmanageable brute." Sandra tells him she has found a simple, pliable brain for the Monster.(Lou's, of course) Meanwhile, Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man, aware that Dracula plots to revive the Monster, attempts to convince Bud and Lou to aid him in thwarting the Count. Bud is sceptical, but Lou, who saw the "exhibits" escape from their crates, belives him. Even Lou, however, is somewhat sceptical of Talbot's request that the boys lock him in his room on nights of the full moon. To Abbot's further disgust, both Sandra and a pretty insurance investigator, Joan Raymond, apparently fall for Lou. Both, however, have ulterior motives. Sandra wishes to gain his brain for the Monster, and Miss Raymond hopes to induce Lou to lead her to the exhibits which the insurance company and MacDougall belive the boys stole. I won't reveal any more of the plot, as it would spoil this hilarious movie, but I will, in closing, quote one of my favorite lines from it. It occurs when Lon Chaney Jr. is trying to convince Lou to aid him in destroying Dracula and the Monster. Lou: I can't help you. I've got a date. In fact, I got two dates. Chaney: But you and I have a date with Destiny. Lou: Let Chick go with Destiny, won't ya? Please? Huh?
