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Bud and Lou get mixed up with hillbillies, witches and love potions.
Leave your thoughts about Comin' Round the Mountain.
| User ReviewBrian BThis one kind of hits home for me. There are hillbillies involved and I live in Kentucky. I've probably met some of those people. |
| User ReviewMike MFun Abbott and Costello flick with a memorable cameo from everyone's favorite wicked witch, Margaret Hamilton. Set in the backwoods of Kentucky, as Costello tries to prove he's a real McCoy - and find the family's long-lost tresure. Also featuring latter-day Frankenstein Glenn Strange as as enemy 'Winfield.' |
| User ReviewMichael AOccasional hilarious moments, with the witch's shack (played by Margaret Hamilton of Wizard of oz) a highlight, but too many Dorothy Shay musical numbers bog down proceedings. |
| User ReviewJonathan SNot a huge fan of hillbilly humor, but Abbott and Costello do their thing. |
| User ReviewHayden LA rather lousy entry in the Abbott and Costello series of films. Lou's character learns he has relatives in the Tennessee hill country, and travels there to find an inheritance. He has a bride chosen for him who he doesnt like and there is a rivalry reminiscent to the Hatfields and the McCoys. A couple good routines, but mostly bland. Too much poking fun at country folk. |
| User ReviewSteve MComin' Round the Mountain Starring: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Shay, and Margaret Hamilton Director: Charles Lamont When small-time talent agent Al Stewart (Abbott) book up-and-coming nightclub singer Dorothy McCoy (Shay) and talentless magician Wilbur the Magnificent (Costello) on the same bill, the two performers realize that not only are they cousins, but that Wilbur holds the key to locating a long-lost family treasure. So, the trio leave the big city for hillbilly country and riches... only to become embroiled in a reawakened backwoods feude between the McCoys and the Winfields. "Comin' Round the Mountain" is definately one of Abbott & Costello's lesser films. This is partly because it that is also intended as a vehicle for singer Dorothy Shay. She has entirely too many musical numbers in the film (one would have been plenty), and her talent as an actress leaves something to be desired. I also think the hillbilly humor also hasn't aged well... well, or maybe the jokes just aren't that funny. (Although, paradoxically, part of me feels that if the film had spent a little more time on hillybillies fueding and shooting at each other, and gotten rid of some of the romance stuff, the film might have been funnier.) Leave this one be, unless you're a tremendous A&C fan who must see all their films before your life is complete. |
| User ReviewMichael TBelow-par for Abbott & Costello; Dorothy Shay sings some songs and, in a change of pace, Margaret Hamilton plays a witch. |
| User ReviewJames TSee it for nothing else but the bit with Hamilton. It didn't leave this fan disappointed. |
| User ReviewBrett SThis is definitely among the weaker films that Bud and Lou appeared in during the 1950s. However, the ending of this film I thought was hilarious because it was so unexpected and random. |