Jack and the Beanstalk
19521h 14m480p
Two down-on-their-luck loafers take a job babysitting, with a bedtime story of the titular tale turning into a wacky Abbott and Costello-faced musical retelling involving stolen cows, terrible giants, and the heroic boy with an opportunistic butcher in a castle above the clouds.
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Abbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a young boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.
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- Director
- Jean Yarbrough
- Starring
- Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Buddy Baer, Dorothy Ford, Barbara Brown, David Stollery, William Farnum, Shaye Cogan
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