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Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer, Dorothy Ford, Shaye Cogan
Running Time: 81 mins.
Vault: FEATURES
One of only two color features made by Abbott and Costello, this fantasy musical of the classic fairy tale tells the tale of Jack (Costello), a professional baby-sitter, with Dink (Abbott) as Jack's agent. After a run-in with a gargantuan cop (Buddy Baer) and a statuesque waitress (Dorothy Ford), Jack and Dink show up at the home of Eloise Larkin (Shaye Cogan), there to look after Eloise's troublesome nephew Donald (David Stollery) while the girl and her boyfriend Arthur Royal (James Alexander) rehearse at their community theatre. While reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk to the bratty Donald, Jack falls asleep, and begins dreaming himself, and his cohorts, into the story as the impoverished boy sent out to sell the family cow. While en route to town with his cow, he encounters a shady butcher (Abbott) who bilks him out of his broken-down bovine for the price of a few "magic" beans. In keeping with the traditional tale, Jack plants the beans and from them a magnificent vine grows to reach into the clouds. Along with the butcher, Jack climbs into a fantastic world inhabited by a terrifying giant (Baer) and other magical creatures, including a gold egg-laying hen, a singing harp, and a distressed prince and princess.
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