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Content Advisory: Child Classic Movie Release: 1952 DVD Release: 05/15/2001 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Edition: Restored/Remastered Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 22 mins Studio: GT Media Total Copies: 3 Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Children's/Family, Parody/Spoof, Children's Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Legends See Also: Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack & the Beanstalk, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack & the Beanstalk [Collector's Edition], Jack and the Beanstalk [Blu-ray]

In 1952, the comedy team of Abbott and Costello entered into a joint agreement with producer Alex Gottlieb and Warner Brothers, whereby two color musical comedies would be produced: Bud Abbott would serve as producer--owner of one of the films, while Lou Costello would do same for the other. Costello's contribution to this agreement was Jack and the Beanstalk, a kiddie-matinee adaptation of the famed fairy tale. Constructed along the lines of The Wizard of Oz, the film begins in black and white. Jack (Costello) is a professional baby-sitter, while Dink (Abbott) is 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 and reaches 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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Bud Abbott - Dinklepuss
Lou Costello - Jack
Buddy Baer - Giant
Buddy Baer - Sgt. Riley
Dorothy Ford - Polly
Shaye Cogan - Eloise Larkin
Shaye Cogan - Princess